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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... arguing that his personality " is one of the most compelling in American history . Rarely does a man achieve great success in more than one field . More rarely still does a man achieve fame in three or more fields . ” 1 Unfortunately ...
... arguments , but one should never deride his honesty or his integrity or his forthrightness . No pun is intended , but ... argued Dixon . “ Once it starts it goes on . It spreads from one nosey mind to another . . . . God almighty never ...
... arguments for tolerance and peace , as in Intolerance , Broken Blossoms , and Isn't Life Won- derful , were of ... argued that Dixon's writings are evidence of a search for an American utopia , neither Southern nor Yankee , but one ...
... argument might certainly be made for the inclusion of John Ford as at the least an honorary Southern filmmaker — a Southerner through his marriage to Mary McBride Smith , whose family plantation had been burned by General Sherman on his ...
... argument against him . " My books are simply merciless records of conditions as they exist , conditions that can have but one ending if they are not honestly and fearlessly faced , " argued Dixon.16 Because Dixon dealt with recent ...
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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 |