Race & Reconciliation in America

by William S. Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen

Book Overview

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all. While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years_including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739135511
• ISBN13: 9780739135518
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"