Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America

by Angela Glover Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, Manuel Pastor Ph.D

A wide-ranging and in-depth discussion of the persistently divisive issues surrounding race in this country. Race is easily the defining point of American disunity. Often discussed in black and white, today's racial divide includes growing numbers of Hispanics and Asian Americans, as well as Native Americans. By broadening the parameters of the racial dialogue, this book brings a new perspective to an essential American issue. The American Assembly of Columbia University commissioned this volume as part of its Uniting America series.
Charts, tables, graphs

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 2002

Reviews

[Zaron]

This book feels old reading it in 2021. The optimism of the early Obama years still exists in the world of this book. I doubt the authors would write the same book now having seen Trump, the pandemic response, and the complete lack of action on climate change along with nearly no action on racial equity. The black lives matter movement doesn't exist, the protests haven't happened. The book is full of vague ideas with corporate sponsorship that don't fit the world we see ourselves living in now. The solutions, suggestions seem more suited for the timid, wasted 90's. Not really worth reading now even if the main point of the book, that we need policies and conservsation directly about racial equity rather than just building everyone up eqaully, is true. All I could think about while reading the book is how much it comes from a time of neoliberal consensus; the idea that large scale redistribution of wealth with or without growth doesn't seem possible to the authors.

[Anika]

This book is stat heavy and shows a lot of case studies. If that's what your looking for than it's a useful read.

[Mills College Library]

305.80097 B6321 2010