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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... film The Birth of a Nation . In addition to writing twenty - eight novels that dealt with primarily social , racial , and political issues , the multitalented and complex Dixon was also involved in the pro- duction of eighteen films ...
... films of Thomas Dixon / Anthony Slide . p . cm . Filmography : p . Includes bibliographical references ( p . ) and index ... Film and video adaptations . 4. Dixon , Thomas , 1864-1946 - Political and social views . 5. Authors , American ...
... film critic Joel Siegel that I was working on a book concerning Tho- mas Dixon , he astonished me with the revelation that his mother - in- law , Charleen Swansea , was Dixon's great - great - granddaughter and put me in touch with this ...
... film that remains controversial almost ninety years after its original release . Like the director of The Birth of a Nation , Dixon has suffered rejection and ridicule . His name is no longer deserving of respectful prominence in the ...
... film The Mark of the Beast . Plagia- rizing from oneself is no crime ; somewhat more questionable is Dixon's plagiarism of Walt Whitman's Specimen Days and Collect ( 1882-83 ) for his scenes of Washington life at the close of the Civil ...
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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 |