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Sleeper Jim (Author)

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September 17, 1991
A report of the current state of race relations in New York City, which examines the differing views of militants, liberals and forgotten minorities, and presents suggestions for racial common sense that attempt to demolish long-standing stereotypes.

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An editorial writer for New York Newsday , Sleeper here offers a fair, tough-minded airing of New York City's racial tensions and animosities on all sides. Countering those black leaders and white leftists who cast New York City as another Johannesburg or as "Up South," he sees hope for resuscitating the fragile 1960s consensus of interracial fair play battered by rising urban crime, poverty, black extremists' divisiveness and white racism. Sleeper spotlights constructive, predominantly black community-based organizations that have adapted the tactics of the late activist Saul Alinsky to confront establishment figures, including Mayor David Dinkins, fixture of the Harlem elite. As timely as today's ugly headlines, this blend of history and reportage seemingly spares no one in its search for common ground.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
borough presidency, race lens, cultural learning styles, neighborhood decay, white reformers, white leftists
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New York, Howard Beach, Forest Hills, David Dinkins, New End Game, The Culture of Schools, The Black Political Odyssey, The Specter of Neighborhood Decay, The Politics of Polarization, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Board of Education, Raymond Jones, Park Slope, Carroll Street, Martin Luther King, The Liberal Nightmare, Vote Your Hopes-and Your Fears, Puerto Rican, City Council, Sonny Carson, Yusuf Hawkins, Roger Starr, Starrett City, Popular Front, Jitu Weusi
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