Blacks and Whites Meeting in America

Terry White is the interim assistant dean of Kent State University’s Ashtabula Campus in Ohio.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Opening Remarks of the David K. Shipler Colloquium on Race     PART I: RACE, THE UNIVERSITY, AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION1. Ideology versus Historic Truth: The Concept of Equality of Educational Opportunity for African Americans    2. Building a Diverse and Respectful Campus Community: A Systematic Approach Model    3. Veiled Diversity: A New Look at What Diversity Means Within the Academy    PART II: RACE AND IDENTITY IN THE ARTS, POPULAR CULTURE, AND SPORTS4. From Jackie Robinson to Sammy Sosa: Baseball and Race in America     5. Two Contemporary African-American Artists      6. Musical Style as a Symbol of Black Cultural Identity      7. When Whites and Blacks Met: Performing Artists on Stage and in Film     8. Looking for Jackie and Mike: Race, Sport, and Contemporary American Culture   PART III: THE PAST AS PROLOGUE: RACE IN THE MINISTRY, THE LIBRARY, THE ACADEMY, AND ON THE CAMPUS9. Southern White Ministers at Mid-Century      10. The Founding and Early History of Chicago's Newberry Library: Free to Whom?    11. From Myrdal to Shipler: The Academy's View of Blacks and Whites in America    12. What’s in a Name? Politically Correct Language On and Off Campus    PART IV: BUILDING AN ECONOMIC BRIDGE ACROSS THE RACIAL DIVIDE13. Organizational Changes Create a New Climate for Racial Equality      14. Dreaming Beyond the Number Two: Race, Work, and Wholeness     PART V: THE EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING KINSHIP OF RACE15. The Strangest of Kin: Blacks and White in America Viewed from the Borderlands    16. Let the Dialogue Begin      17. Racial Profiling: Good Policing or Discriminatory Policy? A Look at the Existing Literature    Part VI: DAVID K. SHIPLER ADDRESS18. Introduction     19. “When I Go to Work, I Have to Leave My Culture at the Door…”     About the Contributors      Index

In white memory, which has been the dominant memory, blacks are usually absent. They just do not figure in the American story, except as slaves, as reminders of guilt. And nobody likes to be reminded of guilt - David K. Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America.