Understanding Race Relations

Brown, Ina Corinne 1896- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0139362118
Physical Description: print
275 p.
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall,

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1: Introduction: The Way Things Are 1. Confrontation -- 2. The Coming of the Blacks -- 3. Race and Racism -- 4. What are "Good" Race Relations? -- Part 2: Race, Culture and Human Relations 1. The Varieties of Human Groups -- 2. The Nature of Group Attitudes -- Part 3: Race and Group Relations -- 4. Race Relationships as An Aspect of Culture -- 5. Our Maps of Reality -- 3. Race and Race Differences 1. Race and Public Policy -- 2. What Is a Race? -- 3. How Races Came To Be -- 4. Are Race Differences Significant? -- 5. The Battle of the I.Q. -- 6. Why Don't They Find Out? -- Part 4: The Mythology of Race 1. Myths of Blood -- 2. Myths of Race Difference -- 3. Myths of Race Mixture -- 4. The Black Baby Myth -- 5. The Function of Myth -- Part 5: The Black Image 1. The Myth of the Negro Past -- 2. Slavery, Race, and Culture -- 3. The Notion of Racial Inferiority -- 4. Reading History Backwards -- 5. Perpetuating the Myth of Inferiority -- Part 6: The Black Man in History 1. The Peoples of Africa -- 2. The Negro in the Acient World -- 3. Black and White in the Middle Ages -- 4. The Land of the Fathers -- 5. Negros in American Life -- Part 7: The Way We Came 1. The Relevance of History -- 2. The Black Thread -- 3. Race and Sectional Patterns -- 4. The Black Man's Burden -- 5. After Freedom -- 6. From Sharecropper to Ghetto -- 7. 1954 and After -- Part 8: 1. What Does It Mean Be Poor? -- 2. Who Are The Poor? -- 3. The Cycle of Poverty -- 4. Race as a Factor in Poverty -- 5. Poverty and the Affluent Society? -- Part 9: Race, Crime, and The Law 1. The Problem of Lawlessness -- 2. Ordinary Crime -- 3. White-Collar Crime -- 4. Organized Crime -- 5. The Unequal Protection of the Law -- 7. Violence as a Form of Protest -- 8. Law and The System of Values -- Part 10: The Black Experience 1. The Blight of the Colour Line -- 2. Seperate and Unequal -- 3. Economic and Cultural Deprivaiton -- 4. Techniques of Subordination -- 5. The Middle Class Dilema -- 6. The Mark of Oppression -- Part 11: Why The Blacks Won't Wait 1. The Black Revolution -- 2. What Do They Want? -- 3. The Revolt Against Authority -- 4. The Now Generation -- 5. The Search for Identity -- 6. The New Blacks and The White Liberals -- Part 12: The White Experience 1. Thinking White -- 2. They Are Not All Alike -- 3. Learning to Be White -- 4. Rights and Double Rights -- 5. Double Vision -- 6. The Poor and the Not-So-Poor -- 7. Prejudice, Guilt, and Responsibiity -- Part 13. The Human Use of Human Beings 1. What Does It Mean to Be Human? -- 2. The Human Peril -- 3. The Past as Prologue -- 4. Our Species Identity -- 5. The Human Potential -- 6. Inventing The Future.