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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... Southern History on the Printed Page 25 3. Southern History on Stage 51 4. Southern History on Film 71 5. The Fall of a Nation 89 6. The Foolish Virgin and the New Woman 105 7. Dixon on Socialism 117 8. The Red Scare 127 9 ...
... Southern California ; Fred G. Turner at the Olivia Raney Local History Library of the Wake County Public Libraries system ; and Megan Mulder of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library of Wake Forest University . Dixon's library of books is housed ...
... Southern racism . Like the director of The Birth of a Nation , D.W. Griffith , Thomas Dixon was a proud son of the ... Southern writers , W.J. Cash , has pointed out , the Civil War may have temporarily de- stroyed the South , but it ...
... southern Jim Crow segregation and for American racism in general . " 2 Yet he did nothing more than reiterate the comments of others , including poet Richard Watson Gilder : " I do not see , in short , how the Negro is ever to be worked ...
... Southern philosophy . A populist author , he provided Americans with as much satisfying reading matter as John Grisham does a century later . Neither Dixon nor D.W. Griffith is a racist in the modern sense of the word , and they should ...
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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 |