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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... South , who learned of its history from his father . Griffith heard of the great 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 ...
... South and its history as was Riefenstahl in her early vindication of Nazi Germany . For Riefenstahl , Nazism was her subject . For Dixon , the South was not merely his subject but his cause . Whether the issues are right or wrong , few ...
... South and the North . Dixon's first biographer , James Zebulon Wright , whose work was never published but in my opinion is the best account , had to admit , “ I admire Thomas Dixon more than anything in the world . . . . I can admire ...
... South has been per- petuated on screen from the early years of the twentieth century . Dixon's South was the South of The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind , a romantic vision , tinged with violence , but a " na- tion " from ...
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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 |