The American Dream And The Negro
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Facing Up To The American Dream
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Author : Jennifer L. Hochschild
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1996-08-05
Facing Up To The American Dream written by Jennifer L. Hochschild and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-05 with Social Science categories.
The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that dream requires of our society, and yet we possess no other central belief that can save the United States from chaos. In this compassionate but frightening book, Hochschild attributes our national distress to the ways in which whites and African Americans have come to view their own and each other's opportunities. By examining the hopes and fears of whites and especially of blacks of various social classes, Hochschild demonstrates that America's only unifying vision may soon vanish in the face of racial conflict and discontent. Hochschild combines survey data and vivid anecdote to clarify several paradoxes. Since the 1960s white Americans have seen African Americans as having better and better chances to achieve the dream. At the same time middle-class blacks, by now one-third of the African American population, have become increasingly frustrated personally and anxious about the progress of their race. Most poor blacks, however, cling with astonishing strength to the notion that they and their families can succeed--despite their terrible, perhaps worsening, living conditions. Meanwhile, a tiny number of the estranged poor, who have completely given up on the American dream or any other faith, threaten the social fabric of the black community and the very lives of their fellow blacks. Hochschild probes these patterns and gives them historical depth by comparing the experience of today's African Americans to that of white ethnic immigrants at the turn of the century. She concludes by claiming that America's only alternative to the social disaster of intensified racial conflict lies in the inclusiveness, optimism, discipline, and high-mindedness of the American dream at its best.
The American Dream And The Negro
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Author : St. Clair Drake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The American Dream And The Negro written by St. Clair Drake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with African Americans categories.
The American Dream And The Negro
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Author : St. Clair Drake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The American Dream And The Negro written by St. Clair Drake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with African Americans categories.
The Unbridgeable Gap
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Author : June Sochen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Unbridgeable Gap written by June Sochen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Political Science categories.
Black Community Uplift And The Myth Of The American Dream
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Author : Lori Latrice Martin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-10-26
Black Community Uplift And The Myth Of The American Dream written by Lori Latrice Martin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with Social Science categories.
This book analyzes enduring racial divides in homeownership, work, and income using the politics of respectability concept. It also examines an alternative way of understanding the Black Lives Matter movement, NFL protests, and challenges facing various black ethnic groups.
Colored Negro Black
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Author : Bernard C. Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Colored Negro Black written by Bernard C. Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with categories.
The American Dream Through The Eyes Of Black African Immigrants In Texas
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Author : Ami R. Moore
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2013-04-18
The American Dream Through The Eyes Of Black African Immigrants In Texas written by Ami R. Moore and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-18 with Social Science categories.
Using James Truslow Adams’ definition of the American dream, this book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream. Almost all of the study participants Moore interviewed considered America a land of opportunity. Additionally, most of the black African immigrants’ definitions of the American dream focused on material aspects. Although participants mostly reported that the United States had been good to them, they nonetheless felt that they had not yet achieved the American dream. Additionally, they reported that their lives in the United States had been, at best, incomplete. They also encountered other challenges which mainly reflected the moralistic aspect of the definition of the American dream. They reported experiences such as not being fully accepted by native-born Americans in general and by white Americans in particular, being discriminated against, and being unappreciated. In fact, all of these challenges created a sense of marginalization among study participants. However, aware of the benefits of migration, they were willing to endure these challenges.
The Black Man And The American Dream
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Author : June Sochen
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1971-01-01
The Black Man And The American Dream written by June Sochen and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971-01-01 with African Americans categories.
Black Liberation And The American Dream
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Author : Paul Le Blanc
language : en
Publisher: Revolutionary Studies
Release Date : 2003
Black Liberation And The American Dream written by Paul Le Blanc and has been published by Revolutionary Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This interesting collection of essays and readings concentrates on the connections between racial justice and economic justice, but also explores the dynamic intersections of race, class, and gender. The underlying theme is that comprehending and acting upon such connections and intersections provide the key to overcoming racism. The volume begins with a lengthy introductory essay by editor Paul Le Blanc, which presents a coherent summary of African American history, with special focus on the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Le Blanc argues that effective action must be grounded in an understanding of the past, and he provides practical guidelines for activism. This is followed by readings from some of the most prominent personalities in the history of the African American liberation struggle: Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, C. L. R. James, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X, Ella Baker, and others. This very informative work will be useful for a wide range of college courses and sensitivity-training workshops, as well as for unionists and activist groups.
Racial Imagination And The American Dream
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Author : Charles P. Henry
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-25
Racial Imagination And The American Dream written by Charles P. Henry and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-25 with Social Science categories.
Although the phrase "the American Dream" dates from the 1930s, the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed (and extended) in the Gettysburg Address have been continuously promoted by every American president. Moreover, they form the basis of our national collective narrative as expressed through both elite and popular culture. The American Dream is intrinsically tied to the American Creed and American Exceptionalism. It is the foundation of our national identity, the glue that holds together our individual aspirations. Yet until the mid-twentieth century, the American Dream excluded African Americans. We as a nation—as an imagined community—could not imagine an integrated, multiracial society with Blacks and Whites living together as equals. By examining the lives of the only three African American Nobel Peace Prize winners, we can see how their lives were shaped by the American Dream, and how their success was used to deny the structural racism that prevented others from achieving the American Dream. Ralph Bunche as a role model of academic and technical expertise, Martin Luther King, Jr., as a model race leader, and Barack Obama as a political leader provide a window on the changing meaning of the American Dream. In conclusion, Haiti is presented as a failed example of an attempt to export the American Dream in the form of American Exceptionalism, and racial reparations are reimagined as a radical democratic project aimed at true global integration and justice.