Prescription for Failure: Race Relations in the Age of Social Science

by Byron M. Roth

Book Overview

As racial tensions ravage America's inner cities, Byron M. Roth argues that the time has come to reassess our public policies on race and rethink the flawed theories that underlie them. In this pathbreaking book, Roth examines the sources of racial conflict and attempts to discover why advances in civil rights for blacks over the past thirty years have not been accompanied by greater harmony between blacks and whites.Roth's central thesis is that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560001615
• ISBN13: 9781560001614
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A facinating, suprising book with intriguing answers

If you are very comfortable with your understanding of the problems of the inner-city, don't read this book. Roth writes in a very readable style, but he produced a challenging even startling book. His analysis of the interplay of inner-city problems is penetrating. He shows how these problems multipy each other rather than merely add to each other. He shows very compellingly how the social science establishment ignored what was right in front of them, because the truth was not welcome, and how public policy makers made foolish choices because of bad social science.This is a facinating book. A real eye opener. You may be uncomfortable with what you learn, unless you are ready to deal with reality. This book is a must for serious students and scholars of social policy.