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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... tell the true story as they knew it to be . “ The true story " became almost a mantra for the two men . Griffith tried to recount what he believed to be the truth of the Civil War and Reconstruction in The Birth of a Nation , utilizing ...
... tell the history of the Civil War and Southern Reconstruc- tion as they believed it to be , so did Dixon embrace the motion picture — although he preferred to call it the cinema1 — as a means of propagandizing many of his ideals and ...
... tells us to laugh . The sunshine fills the world with joy and our hearts sing . It's glorious " ( p . 30 ) . But his love of his country is also tinged with blatant racism ; as he wrote in The Clansman , “ But for the Black curse , the ...
... tell you , with a ring of sincerity in his voice and a flash of idealism in his eyes , that the cinema can be made to give the strongest interpreta- tion of " 15 great world movements . Through documentation and analysis of his films ...
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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 |