African Americans and the Public Agenda: The Paradoxes of Public Policy Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	African Americans, the Public Agenda, and the Paradoxes of Public Policy: A Focus on the Controversies Surrounding Affirmative Action	3
2	Cross-Cutting Black Issues Effected by the Changing Role of Government	27
3	Political Consolidation or American Apartheid? Some Political and Economic Consequences of Black Empowerment	35
4	Maternal Drug Abuse and Infant Health: A Proposal for a Multilevel Model	53
5	The Psychosocial Dimension of Black Maternal Health: An Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class	68
6	Race up the Corporate Ladder: The Dilemmas and Contradictions of First-Wave Black Executives	87
7	Affirm Equality, Oppose Racist Scapegoating: Myths and Realities of Affirmative Action	105
8	Conservative Religious and Ideological Perspectives: Sources and Consequences for Public Policy for the Poor	126
9	African-American Families and Public Policy: The Legacy of the Moynihan Report	150
10	Race Relations and Campus Climate for Minority Students: Implications for Higher Education Desegregation	171
11	Afrocentric Education: Understanding the Effects of Black Academies on Academic Achievement	190
12	Race, Representation, and the Drug Policy Agenda	209
13	Race, Gender, and the Timing of Justice: Age at First Arrest and Incarceration for African American Women	224
14	Which Way Toward Equality? Dilemmas and Paradoxes in Public Policies Affecting Crime and Punishment	238
15	Balanced Opportunity	253
	Author Index	267
	Subject Index	273
	About the Authors	283