African Americans in Georgia: A Reflection of Politics and Policy in the New South (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780881461848)

African Americans in Georgia: A Reflection of Politics and Policy in the New South contains several important themes: voting, elementary and higher education, the quality of representation, and health care disparities. This volume provides an understanding of the intersection of race and region. In this Age of Obama, the idea that race is no longer a barrier to achievement is rampant. However the research presented here reveals that race and class-based problems remain and geography often is a contributing factor to those differences. Thus, this book provides a needed study of how race still matters in twenty-first-century America. The essays presented in this volume provide an understanding of progress but also the depths of the legacy of racial segregation now manifest in structural racism and public policy limitations.

Author: Pearl K. Ford
ISBN-10: 0881461849
ISBN-13: 9780881461848
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.18w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 50