The Imperative of Integration

by Elizabeth S. Anderson

Book Overview

A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integration

More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would argue that we have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691158118
• ISBN13: 9780691158112
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"