The Test of Our Progress

The Test of Our Progress
Author: Corrine M. Yu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1999
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN:

The first part of this report consists of the findings of the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights on the record of the Clinton administration on civil rights. Six years into President Clinton's term, he continues to speak with understanding and empathy about the plight of people trapped in racial and ethnic isolation, but his administration has yet to provide clear direction with respect to civil rights. Some recommendations are made for policy to support equal opportunity. These include policies to renew the national commitment to civil rights and to address basic and critical needs such as nutrition, job training, and education. Major efforts are urged to ensure equal education, with re-examination of school segregation and attention to the needs of children of Limited English Proficiency (LEP). The second part of the report contains working papers prepared for this report by leading civil rights and public interest experts. Of the 22 chapters within part 2, there are 5 which concentrate on education. These chapters are: (1) "The Clinton Administration's Record on Equal Educational Opportunity in Elementary and Secondary Education" (Dennis Parker); (2) "Inclusion of Limited English Proficient Students in Title I: An Assessment of Current Practice" (Diane August, Dianne Piche, and Roger Rice); (3) "Federal Title VI Policy and LEP Pupils" (Peter D. Roos); (4) "Minority Access to Higher Education" (Deborah J. Wilds and Diane C. Hampton); and (5) "The Continuing Challenge: Gender Equity in Education and the Clinton Administration" (Verna L. Williams, Leslie T. Annexstein, and Needa Chaudhry). (SLD)

Rural Health and Aging Research

Rural Health and Aging Research
Author: Wilbert Gesler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351841904

This book describes a wide-ranging set of research approaches which have been used to study the health care problems of adults living in rural areas. It shows how these approaches can be used to define health care problems, measure levels of illness and health, and evaluate health care practices. For each approach, contributors provide a theoretical background from the health care delivery literature, details of how it can be carried out in the field, its strengths and weaknesses, and illustrative examples from both the literature and their own work.

Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico

Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico
Author: George H. Junne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2000-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313065055

Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.

This Is Not Dixie

This Is Not Dixie
Author: Brent M.S. Campney
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-08-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252097610

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post–Civil War Kansas. Campney's capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while also using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion. Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.