African American Issues.0313332401 African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. issues. Roberts, Kevin D. Greenwood Pr. 2006 167 pages $45.00 Hardcover Contemporary American ethnic issues E185 Aimed at high school and college students, this text provides an overview of nine critical issues affecting African Americans and society as a whole. Each of nine chapters looks at a specific issue in the context of the past and the present. Sample topics include slavery reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to , cultural assimilation Not to be confused with Intermarriage.  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. , affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. , standardized
testing, and election reform. Roberts teaches history at New Mexico
State U.
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