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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... novel The Clansman ( 1905 ) , which ulti- mately became the basis for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking 1915 feature film The Birth of a Nation . In addition to writing twenty - eight novels that dealt with primarily social , racial , and ...
... Thomas Dixon . Finally , thanks to Angelique Cain Galskis and Leila Salisbury at the University Press of Kentucky for believing in the project . ४ Xx AMERICAN RACIST INTRODUCTION Although some of his novels still remain ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... novel to the same end . In his mind , a Northerner , Harriet Beecher Stowe , had libeled the South in Uncle Tom's ... novels . As one of the greatest of nonfictional Southern writers , W.J. Cash , has pointed out , the Civil War may have ...
... novels that Dixon published between 1903 and 1939 have been described by one critic as " flaming stories of love , adventure ... novel by Dixon was included . The list was headed by Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and included Edith M. 5 ...
... novels are dismissed as " unashamedly racist , " and his later works , with " Dixon's extremist views focused on other issues , " are " of no literary merit . " 10 Dixon himself might have responded to such criti- cism by saying , “ I ...
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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 |