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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... wrote the only published biography of Thomas Dixon , Fire from the Flint . Its subtitle , The Amazing Ca- reers of Thomas Dixon , properly acknowledges that the subject was not only a prolific and controversial novelist but also a popu ...
... wrote and to Dixon's film productions . They are almost all stirring social melodramas , morality plays in which the morality is that of their auteur and , more often than not , that of the general American populace . With The Birth of ...
... wrote in 1923 , " The moving picture man , author and producer and exhibitor should take himself more seriously . He is not merely the purveyor of a form of amusement . He is leading a revolution in the development of humanity — as ...
... wrote , and directed their own films , and both could boast of immediate name recognition with their con- temporary audiences . From the American silent film era , only pio- neering female director Lois Weber is comparable , but her ...
... wrote , “ His realism is the realism of the open sore ; his art the art of the billboard . " 17 Such a comment is both an assault on and an affirmation of Dixon's pragmatic integrity . There are some who argue that Dixon is both a ...
Содержание
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 |