Awakening Minorities

Download or read book Awakening Minorities written by John R. Howard and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, entirely revamped edi­tion of the immensely popular reader Awakening Minorities, pub­lished in 1970, provides a status re­port on these social groups. What has a decade meant to them? How have changes in the sociopolitical and economic environments af­fected the ways in which these groups pursue their objectives? In his new and thoughtful in­troductory essay to this second edition John Howard provides a historical context for the articles appearing in this volume. The is­sues of the 1980s are different from those of the 1960s, and for these articles to be fully under­stood they have to be placed against the broad unfolding of race issues, problems, and dilem­mas in American history. The re­cent economic situation has pro­duced an analytic framework less hospitable to public investment in meliorative programs for minority groups. The presence of large numbers of new immigrants-- Koreans, Philippines, and Indi­ans--interested in entrepreneurialindependence is contrasted with the problems of the older minority groups.