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Les noirs américains : des champs de coton à la Maison Blanche
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ISBN: 2755704063 9782755704068 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris : Panama,

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Bibliotheek François Vercammen

Les différentes couleurs du SIDA aux Etats-Unis : multiculturalisme et activisme chez les communautés afro-américaines et latino-américaines
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ISBN: 2747547701 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

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The greatest taboo : homosexuality in black communities
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ISBN: 1555835643 Year: 2000 Publisher: Los Angeles : Alyson Books,

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Fonds Suzan Daniel (FSD)

When work disappears : the world of the new urban poor.
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ISBN: 0394579356 9780394579351 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York Knopf

The declining significance of race : Blacks and changing American institutions
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ISBN: 0226901297 Year: 1980 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

Facing up to the American dream
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ISBN: 0691029571 0691029202 128275226X 1400821738 9786612752261 1400812097 9781400821730 9780691029207 9780691029573 9781400812097 6612752262 9781282752269 1400803713 Year: 1995 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that dream requires of our society, and yet we possess no other central belief that can save the United States from chaos. In this compassionate but frightening book, Hochschild attributes our national distress to the ways in which whites and African Americans have come to view their own and each other's opportunities. By examining the hopes and fears of whites and especially of blacks of various social classes, Hochschild demonstrates that America's only unifying vision may soon vanish in the face of racial conflict and discontent. Hochschild combines survey data and vivid anecdote to clarify several paradoxes. Since the 1960's white Americans have seen African Americans as having better and better chances to achieve the dream. At the same time middle-class blacks, by now one-third of the African American population, have become increasingly frustrated personally and anxious about the progress of their race. Most poor blacks, however, cling with astonishing strength to the notion that they and their families can succeed--despite their terrible, perhaps worsening, living conditions. Meanwhile, a tiny number of the estranged poor, who have completely given up on the American dream or any other faith, threaten the social fabric of the black community and the very lives of their fellow blacks. Hochschild probes these patterns and gives them historical depth by comparing the experience of today's African Americans to that of white ethnic immigrants at the turn of the century. She concludes by claiming that America's only alternative to the social disaster of intensified racial conflict lies in the inclusiveness, optimism, discipline, and high-mindedness of the American dream at its best.

American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass
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ISBN: 0674018206 9780674018204 0674018214 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London Harvard University Press

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