Wrong for All the Right Reasons : : How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race / / Gordon Macinnes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Macinnes, Gordon,
• MitwirkendeR: Leone, Richard C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

There was a time, in this century, when liberals championed the working class, when Democrats were indisputably the party of those who worked rather than invested for a living. Today, however, most Americans have come to see liberals as drifting and aimless, somehow lacking in backbone and moral fib...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• FOREWORD
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. THE POLITICS OF RACE: CONSERVATIVE INDIFFERENCE MEETS LIBERAL TIMIDITY
• 2. RACE AND POLITICS IN THE JOHNSON YEARS : FROM MORAL MONOPOLY TO POLITICAL SIDESHOW
• 3. THE SOURCES OF LIBERAL DECLINE: FAILURES OF MIND
• 4. THE LIBERAL ABANDONMENT OF POLITICS
• 5. THE COSTS OF BLACK UNITY: POLITICAL ISOLATION
• 6. THE HIGH COSTS OF CONSERVATIVE RULE
• 7. REBUILDING A PROGRESSIVE VISION
• 8. SOLVING PROBLEMS IN POOR CITY NEIGHBORHOODS
• 9. PROGRESSIVE RESTORATION: WITH OR WITHOUT CLINTON
• NOTES
• INDEX