Examines strategies to improve the socio-economic conditions of inner cities in North America. Fragile urban infrastructures are often vulnerable to patterns that impede human flourishing. This lecture presents an alternate vision for personal and communal uplift based on local entrepreneurial initiative.
Recommended Reading:
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Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character; A New Vision of Race in America (New York: Harper Collins, 1990); A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America (New York: Harper Collins, 1990).
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Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn, Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001).
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Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005); Race & Culture: A World View (New York: Basic Books, 1994).
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Orlando Patterson, The Ordeal of Integration (New York: Basic Books, 1997).
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Stephan & Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black & White(New York: Touchstone, 1997).
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John McWhorter, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (New York: Perennial, 2000).
Opposing Views:
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Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basics, 1992).
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Joe Feagin & Hernán Vera, White Racism: The Basics (New York: Routledge, 1995).
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Cornel West, Race Matters (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993).
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Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (N Y: Scribner’s, 1992).
