{"product_id":"integration-or-separation-a-strategy-for-racial-equality-9780674456457","title":"Integration or Separation?: A Strategy for Racial Equality","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Roy L. Brooks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Minority Studies - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntegrated in principle, segregated in fact: is this the legacy of fifty years of \"progress\" in American racial policy? Is there hope for much better? Roy L. Brooks, a distinguished professor of law and a writer on matters of race and civil rights, says with frank clarity what few will admit--integration hasn't worked and possibly never will. Equally, he casts doubt on the solution that many African-Americans and mainstream whites have advocated: total separation of the races. This book presents Brooks's strategy for a middle way between the increasingly unworkable extremes of integration and separation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLimited separation, the approach Brooks proposes, shifts the focus of civil rights policy from the group to the individual. Defined as cultural and economic integration within African-American society, this policy would promote separate schooling, housing, and business enterprises where needed to bolster the self-sufficiency of the community, without trammeling the racial interests of individuals inside or outside of the group, and without endangering the idea of a shared Americanness. But all the while Brooks envisions African-American public schools, businesses, and communities redesigned to serve the enlightened self-interest of the individual. Unwilling to give up entirely on racial integration, he argues that limited separation may indeed lead to improved race relations and, ultimately, to healthy integration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book appears at a crucial time, as Republicans dismantle past civil rights policies and Democrats search for new ones. With its alternative strategy and useful policy ideas for bringing individual African-Americans into mainstream society as first-class citizens, \u003ci\u003eIntegration or Separation?\u003c\/i\u003e should influence debate and policymaking across the spectra of race, class, and political persuasion.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46896818389143,"sku":"9780674456457","price":4778.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674456457.webp?v=1770360042","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/integration-or-separation-a-strategy-for-racial-equality-9780674456457","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}