Two Nations

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Are we "one nation under God" or two nations manacled by race?
Two Nations is the first book since Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic An American Dilemma to offer an up-to-date and profound analysis of the conditions that keep blacks and whites dangerously far apart in their ability to participate fully in the American Dream. In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Hacker demonstrates that no other minority group has made so unavailing a struggle for acceptance, finding at the root of the disenfranchisement of black Americans the disabling but subtle and pervasive misconception—shared by both left and right—that blacks are inferior. The consequence, Andrew Hacker asserts, is that our largest minority is outside the mainstream of America's productive economy. Tim Nations is a startUng portrait of a society that since World War II has been crippled by its inability to safeguard the civil rights of all its people.
Hacker analyzes the choices all Americans, black and white, make in daily... Tovább

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Are we "one nation under God" or two nations manacled by race?
Two Nations is the first book since Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic An American Dilemma to offer an up-to-date and profound analysis of the conditions that keep blacks and whites dangerously far apart in their ability to participate fully in the American Dream. In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Hacker demonstrates that no other minority group has made so unavailing a struggle for acceptance, finding at the root of the disenfranchisement of black Americans the disabling but subtle and pervasive misconception—shared by both left and right—that blacks are inferior. The consequence, Andrew Hacker asserts, is that our largest minority is outside the mainstream of America's productive economy. Tim Nations is a startUng portrait of a society that since World War II has been crippled by its inability to safeguard the civil rights of all its people.
Hacker analyzes the choices all Americans, black and white, make in daily hfe—how we select our neighborhoods and our political candidates, our sports heroes and our cultural icons—and reveals exactly how deeply issues of race shape the thinking of all Americans. Topic by topic, Hacker addresses the specific problems that mark our disastrously racist society—crime, unemployment, teenage pregnancy, affirmative action, drugs, illiteracy—and he elucidates why rage about race is closer to the surface now than at any time in the history of post-World War II America.
Hacker's unmatched mastery of the subject matter makes Tiw Nations uniquely informative, objective, timely, and urgent. A fresh and disturbing examination of the divisions of color and class in 1990s America, Two Nations is proof positive that the freedoms we pretend to share may simply be illusions.
ANDREW HACKER, professor of political science at Queens College, is the author of seven books, including The End of the American Era and The United States: A Statistical Portrait of the American People. He is a prolific contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and other leading publications. Vissza