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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... writer . Dixon , whose career was born of the desire to write what he deemed an " accurate " sequel to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ) , suggested in his writing and films alternative solutions to war to address the ...
... writers , W.J. Cash , has pointed out , the Civil War may have temporarily de- stroyed the South , but it left intact the Southern mind and will . The tragedy and sorrow of the Reconstruction period fortified and con- firmed that mind ...
... writer and a preacher is beyond dispute . One may vehemently reject his arguments , but one should never deride his honesty or his integrity or his forthrightness . No pun is intended , but Dixon's life and career cannot be dis- cussed ...
... writer and as such should be consigned to obscu- rity.18 But that is an overstatement on both counts . There is much that is wrong , perhaps even evil , in the works of Thomas Dixon . Yet who can boast of so much influence on not only a ...
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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 |