American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas DixonUniversity Press of Kentucky, 10 сент. 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 242 Between 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson defined affirmative action as a legitimate federal goal, and 1972, when President Richard M. Nixon named one of affirmative action's chief antagonists the head of the Department of Labor, government officials at all levels addressed racial economic inequality in earnest. Providing members of historically disadvantaged groups an equal chance at obtaining limited and competitive positions, affirmative action had the potential to alienate large numbers of white Americans, even those who had viewed school desegregation and voting rights in a positive light. Thus, affirmative action was -- and continues to be -- controversial. Novel in its approach and meticulously researched, David Hamilton Golland's Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity bridges a sizeable gap in the literature on the history of affirmative action. Golland examines federal efforts to diversify the construction trades from the 1950s through the 1970s, offering valuable insights into the origins of affirmative action--related policy. Constructing Affirmative Action analyzes how community activism pushed the federal government to address issues of racial exclusion and marginalization in the construction industry with programs in key American cities. |
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... Civil War battles from his parent , while Dixon was told by his father and his uncle , Colonel Leroy McAfee , how they had helped organize the local Ku Klux Klan in 1868-69 . Both men told their fathers ' stories in The Birth of a ...
... Civil War and Southern Reconstruc- tion as they believed it to be , so did Dixon embrace the motion picture — although he preferred to call it the cinema1 — as a means of propagandizing many of his ideals and philosophies . Socialism ...
... Civil War in The Clansman . For Dixon , the motion picture was no mere toy nor just an- other popular form of entertainment . As he wrote in 1923 , " The moving picture man , author and producer and exhibitor should take himself more ...
... Civil War as a vehicle for the freeing of slaves . If Dixon had produced the film , it would have depicted the reality of Negroes lynched in New York and the burning of a city orphanage for African American children , but these ...
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The Life Worth Living | 15 |
Southern History on the Printed Page | 27 |
Southern History on Stage | 53 |
Southern History on Film | 73 |
The Fall of a Nation | 91 |
The Foolish Virgin and the New Woman | 93 |
Dixon on Socialism | 105 |
The Red Scare | 118 |
Journeyman Filmmaker | 141 |
Nation Aflame | 153 |
The Final Years | 171 |
Raymond Rohauer and the Dixon Legacy | 181 |
Filmography | 195 |
Notes | 199 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 219 |