An impossible dream? : racial integration in the United States / Sharon A. Stanley.
Stanley, Sharon A., 1977- author.
2017
E184.A1 S755 2017eb
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Title An impossible dream? : racial integration in the United States / Sharon A. Stanley.
Author Stanley, Sharon A., 1977- author.
ISBN 9780190639983 (electronic book)
0190639989 (electronic book)
9780190639990 (electronic book)
0190639997 (electronic book)
9780190639976
9780190640002
0190640006
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 210 pages)
Call Number E184.A1 S755 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
Summary "Contemporary debate over the legacy of racial integration in the United States rests between two positions that are typically seen as irreconcilable. On one side are those who argue that we must pursue racial integration because it is an essential component of racial justice. On the other are those who question the ideal of integration and suggest that its pursuit may damage the very population it was originally intended to liberate. In An Impossible Dream? Sharon A. Stanley shows that much of this apparent disagreement stems from different understandings of the very meaning of integration. In response, she offers a new model of racial integration in the United States that takes seriously the concerns of longstanding skeptics, including black power activists and black nationalists. Stanley reformulates integration to de-emphasize spatial mixing for its own sake and calls instead for an internal, psychic transformation on the part of white Americans and a radical redistribution of power. The goal of her vision is not simply to mix black and white bodies in the same spaces and institutions, but to dismantle white supremacy and create a genuine multiracial democracy. At the same time, however, she argues that achieving this model of integration in the contemporary United States would be extraordinarily challenging, due to the poisonous legacy of Jim Crow and the hidden, self-reinforcing nature of white privilege today. Pursuing integration against a background of persistent racial injustice might well exacerbate black suffering without any guarantee of achieving racial justice or a worthwhile form of integration. As long as the future of integration remains uncertain, its pursuit can neither be prescribed as a moral obligation nor rejected as intrinsically indefensible. In An Impossible Dream? Stanley dissects this vexing moral and political quandary"-- Provided by publisher.
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PART I
How Not to Integrate
How to Integrate : Hearts and Minds
How to Integrate : The Redistribution of Power
Reconciling Integration and Racial Solidarity
PART II
The Temporal Paradox of Integration
Confronting White Privilege.

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