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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics" that was published in Social Sciences.
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This report on race and education has been prepared at the request of President Johnson, who on November 17, 1965, asked the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to gather the facts bearing on racial isolation in the schools and make them available to the Nation as rapidly as possible. The Commission's fact-finding has involved four general subject areas: (1) The extent of racial isolation in the public schools and the extent of the disparity in educational achievement between white and Negro school children; (2) the factors that contribute to intensifying and perpetuating school segregation; (3) the relationship between racially isolated education and the outcomes of that education, and the impact of racial isolation on the attitudes and interracial associations of Negroes and whites; and (4) the various programs that have been proposed or put into operation for remedying educational disadvantage and relieving racial isolation in the schools. The Commission has sought out the facts in the hope of shedding needed light on the issues. On the basis of its findings, the Commission has made recommendations which may provide a basis for action by government at all levels; action that it hopes will fulfill for all American children--Negro and white alike--the promise of equality of educational opportunity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).
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As the United States championed principles of freedom and equality during World War II, it denied fundamental rights to many non-white citizens. In the wake of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor” policy with Latin America, African American and Mexican American civil rights leaders sought ways to make that policy of respect and mutual obligations apply at home as well as abroad. They argued that a whites-only democracy not only denied constitutional protection to every citizen but also threatened the war effort and FDR’s aims.Neil Foley examines the complex interplay among regional, national, and international politics that plagued the efforts of Mexican Americans and African Americans to find common ground in ending employment discrimination in the defense industries and school segregation in the war years and beyond. Underlying differences in organizational strength, political affiliation, class position, and level of assimilation complicated efforts by Mexican and black Americans to forge strategic alliances in their fight for economic and educational equality. The prospect of interracial cooperation foundered as Mexican American civil rights leaders saw little to gain and much to lose in joining hands with African Americans.Over a half century later, African American and Latino civil rights organizations continue to seek solutions to relevant issues, including the persistence of de facto segregation in our public schools and the widening gap in wealth and income in America. Yet they continue to grapple with the difficulty of forging solidarity across lines of cultural, class, and racial-ethnic difference, a struggle that remains central to contemporary American life.
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