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Winning while losing? : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama / edited by Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency.
- The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Conservatism--United States.
- Conservatism.
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- Racism--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the relationship between race and the rise of conservativism in America and the political setbacks that remained in the way of attempts to remedy oppression and discrimination.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The paradox of success: civil rights and the presidency in a new era / Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White
- Zigs and zags: Richard Nixon and the new politics of race / John D. Skrentny
- African American civil rights and conservative mobilization in the Jimmy Carter years / Joseph Crespino and Asher Smith
- Ronald Reagan and the leadership conference on civil rights: battles won and wars lost / Mary Frances Berry
- Rebuilding institutions and redefining issues: the Reagan Justice Department and the reconstruction of rights / Richard L. Pacelle Jr
- Civil rights policymaking in the Clinton administration: in Reagan?s shadow / Robert C. Smith
- Old vinegar in a new bottle: vote denial in the 2000 presidential election and beyond / Charles L. Zelden
- George W. Bush, compassionate conservatism, and the limits of "racial realism" / Steven F. Lawson
- Civil rights and the first black president: Barack Obama and the politics of racial equality / Ronald W. Walters with Robert C. Smith
- Conclusion: more equal and less equal since the 1970s / Thomas Borstelmann.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-6453-8
- 0-8130-4697-1
- 0-8130-4860-5
- OCLC:
- 862050210
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