Separate and unequal : African Americans and the US federal government / Desmond King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Desmond S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in the civil service.

African Americans--Segregation.

African Americans.

United States--Armed Forces--African Americans.

United States.

Armed Forces.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 368 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Despite major strides in combating racial segregation and oppression since the Civil Rights movement, racial inequality remains a persistent and vexing problem in America today. At the forefront of recent scholarship highlighting the central influence of the US federal government on race relations well before the 1960s, Separate and Unequal uncovers, through archival research, how the federal government used its power to impose a segregated pattern of race relations among its employees and, through its programs, upon the whole of American society. In a new postscript to this revised edition, Desmond King places his original, groundbreaking analysis in the context of recent studies and connects the legacy of exclusionary programs and policies to current racial disparities in welfare reform, prisons, and education.

Contents:

The politics of segregation in post-reconstruction America

Joining the government : because I dared to be black

Working in a federal agency : social ostracism and discrimination

A great shadow over our 'civil rights' : fighting for the government

Serving time with the government : federal penitentiaries

The federal government in a segregated society : public employment exchanges and housing programmes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195336221

0195336224

OCLC:

147980245