Still a House Divided : : Race and Politics in Obama's America /

Still a House Divided : : Race and Politics in Obama's America / / Rogers M. Smith, Desmond King.

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Why have American policies failed to reduce the racial inequalities still pervasive throughout the nation? Has President Barack Obama defined new political approaches to race that might spur unity and progress? Still a House Divided examines the enduring divisions of American racial politics and how...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
VerfasserIn:
King, Desmond,
Smith, Rogers M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 125
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 5 halftones. 36 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE. Obama's Inheritance
  • Chapter 1. "That They May All Be One". America as a House Divided
  • PART TWO. The Making and Unmaking of Racial Hierarchies
  • Chapter 2. "That is the last speech he will ever make". The Antebellum Racial Alliances
  • Chapter 3. "We of the North were thoroughly wrong". How Racial Alliances Mobilized Ideas and Law
  • PART THREE. The Trajectory of Racial Alliances
  • Chapter 4. "This backdrop of entrenched inequality". Affirmative Action in Work
  • Chapter 5. To "affirmatively further fair housing". Enduring Racial Inequalities in American Homes and Mortgages
  • Chapter 6. "To elect one of their own". Racial Alliances and Majority-Minority Districts
  • Chapter 7. "Our goal is to have one classification-American". Vouchers for Schools and the Multiracial Census
  • Chapter 8. "We can take the people out of the slums, but we cannot take the slums out of the people". How Today's Racial Alliances Shape Laws on Crime and Immigration
  • PART FOUR. America's Inheritance
  • Chapter 9. Prospects of the House Divided
  • Notes
  • Index

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