The contributors to this volume address urban social theory, contemporary cultural change and analysis of racial subordination in order to explore and confront

An examination of the laws of each state regarding civil rights, segregation, interracial marriage and other issues.

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Does the concept of ethnicity divide the oppressed or unite minorities? Is the term `community' a dangerous fiction? What are the relations between the liberal

The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens. Uncov