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The Kerner Report

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Kerner Report
Authors and Contributors      By (author) National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Introduction by Julian E. Zelizer
SeriesThe James Madison Library in American Politics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:544
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780691169378
ClassificationsDewey:305.800973
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 10 May 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

"'The Kerner Report' is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States. Drawing together decades of scholarship showing the widespread and ingrained nature of racism, [the report] provided an important set of arguments about what the nation needs to do to achieve racial justice, one that is familiar in today's climate"--Back cover.

Author Biography

The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Its members included former Illinois governor Otto Kerner, New York City mayor John Lyndsay, U.S. senators Edward Brooke and Fred R. Harris, and NAACP executive director Roy Harris. Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His many books include The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and The Battle for the Great Society.

Reviews

"The 2016 reissue of the report, along with historian Julian Zelizer's riveting introduction, should be required reading for all Americans interested in understanding the historical and policy roots of contemporary discussions of race."---Peniel Joseph, CNN "Some aspects of the report may resonate even more loudly today than they did in the late 1960s. For example, the commission's repeated emphasis on the role of police brutality in alienating black citizens and sowing the seeds of urban discontent now assumes added significance, given the many images of unarmed black men whose deaths at the hands of the state have been seared into the national psyche. Indeed, some of the report's assessments could-eerily and depressingly-have been written yesterday to describe America's recent racial disturbances, in locales ranging from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore, Maryland: 'Almost invariably the incident that ignites disorder arises from police action.'"---Justin Driver, The Atlantic