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Book SynopsisMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would a
Trade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Joseph B. Gittler Award, The American Philosophical Association One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates for 2010-2011 "[A] real tour de force of philosophical argumentation utilizing social science data."--Brian Leiter, Leiter Reports blog "[T]his book is an impressive addition to the growing literature in so-called 'non-ideal' political theory, which as Anderson herself notes, begins 'from a diagnosis of injustices in our actual world, rather than from a picture of an ideal world.'"--Andrew Peirce, Philosophy in Review "There are social, academic and economic benefits to integration--the evidence for which is so powerfully represented in Elizabeth Andreson's award-winning book, The Imperative of Integration."--Jonathan Jansen, The Times
Table of ContentsPreface ix Chapter One: Segregation and Social Inequality 1 Chapter Two: Racial Segregation and Material Inequality in the United States 23 Chapter Three: Segregation, Racial Stigma, and Discrimination 44 Chapter Four: Racial Segregation Today: A Normative Assessment 67 Chapter Five: Democratic Ideals and Segregation 89 Chapter Six: The Imperative of Integration 112 Chapter Seven: Understanding Affirmative Action 135 Chapter Eight: The Folly and Incoherence of Color Blindness 155 Chapter Nine: The Ordeal and Promise of Integration 180 Notes 193 Index 239
