Theodore Rueter

The Politics of Race (eBook, ePUB)

African Americans and the Political System

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the relationship between race and American politics, organised around the institutions and processes of American government. It includes readings by individuals like Bill Clinton, Charles Hamilton, and Carol Swain, across a wide variety of ideological perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315286358
• Artikelnr.: 49350464

Autorenporträt

Theodore Reuter

Inhaltsangabe

About the Contributors
Preface
I. Overview
l. The Politics of Race
2. Rejection and Protest: An Historical Sketch
3. Race and the Crisis of the American Spirit
II. Cultural Politics and Political Ideology
4. Postmodem Racial Politics in the United States: Difference and Inequality
5. Malcolm X and the Revival of Black Nationalism
6. False Prophet: The Rise of Louis Farrakhan
7. The New Black Conservatives
III. Interest Groups and Political Parties
8. The Dual Agenda of African American Organizations since the New Deal: Social Welfare Policies and Civil Rights
9. The Democrats and Liberal Guilt
10. The 1992 Republican "Tent": No Blacks Walked In
11. In Quest of African American Political Woman
12. Gender
Race
and the State Legislature: A Research Note on the Double Disadvantage Hypothesis
V. Congress
13. The Congressional Black Caucus Revolution
14. Strategies for Increasing Black Representation in Congress
15. What Color Is Your Gerrymander? The Constitution and White Minority Districts
VI. The Presidency
16. The Politics of Race: From Kennedy to Reagan
17. The Reagan Attack on Race Liberalism
VII. The Judicial System
18. The Constitution
the Supreme Court
and Racism: Compromises on the Way to Democracy
19. The New Supreme Court and the Politics of Racial Equality
20. Beyond the Rodney King Story: Police Conduct and Community Relations
VIII. State and Urban Politics
21. Can Black Candidates Win Statewide Elections?
22. The End of the Rainbow: America's Changing Urban Politics
23. Race and the American City
24. How the Rioters Won
IX. Public Policy
25. The Urban Underclass and the Poverty Paradox
26. How the Great Society "destroyed the American family"
27. The Clinton Administration and African-Americans
About the Editor