Residential Segregation
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about residential segregation, noting that it has important economic, educational and family consequences. Professor Conley observes that there is a premium fo..
Resistance and Rebellion
Historian and author Ira Berlin explains that slaveholders were generally able to prevail upon non-slaveholders to help them squelch resistance among the slave population. "But ultimately," Professor Berlin notes, "...sl..
Respecting Planet Earth
Former Sierra Club president David Brower talks about some of the ways humans have damaged planet Earth in the quest for material possessions and wealth. He invokes Henry David Thoreau's sentiment that there's no use for..
Responding to Epidemics
Professor of Sociology and History Craig Calhoun talks about the ways in which nations respond to epidemics. Professor Calhoun focuses on the importance of prevention, as well as setting up a triage process that allows f..
Response From Family
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison talks about sharing with her family the manuscript that details her story, because "...it's a genetic illness and I didn't want anybody to...be uncomfortable with t..
Restless Society: Battle for Racial Equality
During the 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy promises to end segregation with stroke of a pen. His inaction once he is elected fuels the disillusionment of African Americans. Their attempt to desegregate Birmin..
Restless Society: Battle for Voting Rights, The
During the summer of 1964, almost 100 years after ratification of 15th amendment, thousands of civil rights workers spread throughout the South to work on behalf of black voter registration. Martin Luther King leads a gr..
Restless Society: Changing Restrictive Immigration Quotas
The Immigration Act of 1965 attempts to open U. S. doors to Southern and Eastern Europeans and Asians. By the 2000 Asian and Latino populations mushroom, but only about 10% of new immigrants come from Europe.
Restless Society: Divisions in the Civil Rights Movement
Racial injustice is no longer limited to South or rural areas. Sixty-nine percent of blacks now live in cities, often in embattled inner-city neighborhoods where there is a growing sense of abandonment and anger. The Wat..
Restless Society: Great Society: Assault on Poverty in U.S, The.
Johnson expands on Kennedy's idea of a war on poverty and lays out an agenda for what he calls the "Great Society." In an effort to create full employment, Johnson instigates an $11 billion tax cut and creates programs p..