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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... director , Valerie M. Parry . The largest collection of Dixon papers- some 239 items — is to be found in the Rare Book , Manuscript , and Special Collections Library of Duke University , where I was helped by Research Services Librarian ...
... director of The Birth of a Nation , D.W. Griffith , Thomas Dixon was a proud son of the 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 ...
... director of The Birth of a Nation , Dixon has suffered rejection and ridicule . His name is no longer deserving of respectful prominence in the history of Ameri- can popular culture . The eighteen novels that Dixon published between ...
... director Lois Weber is comparable , but her films are infinitely more liberal than those of Dixon and Griffith and far more female - oriented . Where Dixon and Griffith differ is that the latter tended to concentrate on Victorian ...
... director's A Romance of Happy Valley ( 1919 ) , and an unreconstructed Confederate living in France is prominent in The Girl Who Stayed at Home ( 1919 ) . Dixon also featured South- ern characters with high , if not always palatable ...
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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 |