The Integration Debate Competing Futures For American Cities [Paperback]

Racial integration, and policies intended to achieve greater integration, continue to generate controversy in the United States, with some of the most heated debates taking place among long-standing advocates of racial equality.

Today, many nonwhites express what has been referred to as integration exhaustion as they question the value of integration in todays world. And many whites exhibit what has been labeled race fatigue, arguing that we have done enough to reconcile the races. Many policies have been implemented in efforts to open up traditionally restricted neighborhoods, while others have been designed to diversify traditionally poor, often nonwhite, neighborhoods. Still, racial segregation persists, along with the many social costs of such patterns of uneven development.

This book explores both long-standing and emerging controversies over the nations ongoing struggles with discrimination and segregation. More urgently, it offers guidance on how these barriers can be overcome to achieve truly balanced and integrated living patterns.

Acknowledgments

1) Integration Exhaustion, Race Fatigue, and the American Dream 1

Chester Hartman, Poverty & Race Research Action Council and

Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University

2) Welcome to the Neighborhood? The Persistence of Discrimination and 16 Segregation

Shanna Smith and Cathy Cloud, National Fair Housing Alliance

3) From Segregation to Integration: How Do We Get There? 40

Nancy A. Denton, University at Albany, SUNY

4) Creating and Protecting Pro-Integration Programs Under the Fair 66

Housing Act

John Relman, Glenn Schlactus, and Shalini Goel,

Relman & Dane lawfirm

5) Achieving Integration Through Private Litigation 89

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