Integrated in principle, segregated in fact: is this the legacy of
fifty years of "progress" in American racial policy? Is there hope
for much better? Roy L. Brooks, a distinguished professor of law
and a writer on matters of race and civil rights, says with frank
clarity what few will admit--integration hasn't worked and possibly
never will. Equally, he casts doubt on the solution that many
African-Americans and mainstream whites have advocated: total
separation of the races. This book presents Brooks's strategy for a
middle way between the increasingly unworkable extremes of
integration and separation.
Limited separation, the approach Brooks proposes, shifts the
focus of civil rights policy from the group to the individual.
Defined as cultural and economic integration within
African-American society, this policy would promote separate
schooling, housing, and business enterprises where needed to
bolster the self-sufficiency of the community, without trammeling
the racial interests of individuals inside or outside of the group,
and without endangering the idea of a shared Americanness. But all
the while Brooks envisions African-American public schools,
businesses, and communities redesigned to serve the enlightened
self-interest of the individual. Unwilling to give up entirely on
racial integration, he argues that limited separation may indeed
lead to improved race relations and, ultimately, to healthy
integration.
This book appears at a crucial time, as Republicans dismantle
past civil rights policies and Democrats search for new ones. With
its alternative strategy and useful policy ideas for bringing
individual African-Americans into mainstream society as
first-classcitizens, "Integration or Separation?" should influence
debate and policymaking across the spectra of race, class, and
political persuasion.
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