Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky
Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky
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五十年种族隔离:肯塔基州的黑人高等教育
DOI:
10.2307/369166
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发表时间:
1998
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0.8
通讯作者:
Jayne R. Beilke
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作者:
Jayne R. Beilke
of multiculturalism or what he calls the diversity awareness movement. He concludes that there are several problems that the diversity awareness move ment does not adequately address. For example, what is the essential nature of the African-American community? Until these answers appear, he argues, Americans cannot understand their common experience. In the conclusion, John Higham borrows an idea from C. Van Wood ward and describes the civil rights movement as a series of reconstructions. The first reconstruction took place when the United States Congress pro hibited slave trade. The second followed the U.S. Civil War. The third was the civil rights movement that grew rapidly from 1963 to 1968. High am predicts the fourth reconstruction will occur when churches, schools, and media restore people's faith in their national identity and in human possibilities. Although Civil Rights and Social Wrongs collects essays by several promi nent authors, their work is uneven. Further, the authors present a narrow range of views. More important, perhaps, the book is not a histoiy of blackwhite relations since World War I I as the title suggests. One of the state ments on the cover asserts that the common theme among these papers is that the civil rights movement led to affirmative action and multicultural ism which stalemated the reform. However, the book does not offer a clear demonstration of such a development. Nor do the papers fit the theme of the conference held by the Balch Institute. Consequently, this book represents a missed opportunity. The tal ented scholars that the Balch Institute brought together for the seminar could explain how the civil rights movement changed over time, but they could not maintain the research emphases they developed for this book. As a result, readers will not learn from this volume how to revitalize the civil rights movement.