Race and American political development / edited by Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov, and Dorian T. Warren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowndes, Joseph E., 1966-

Novkov, Julie, 1966-

Warren, Dorian Tod, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens' political identities. But because of the nature of race-its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power-we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively.Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make

Contents:

Cover; Race and American Political Development; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Race and American political development; 2 Race and the dual state in the early American republic; 3 Charleston, the Vesey conspiracy, and the development of the police power; 4 Racial orders in American political development; 5 Hierarchy and hybridity: the internal postcolonialism of mid-nineteenth-century American expansionism; 6 Reconstruction, race, and revolution; 7 Jim Crow reform and the democratization of the south

8 Race's reality: the NAACP confronts racism and inequality in the labor movement, 1940-659 Legacies of slavery? Race and historical causation in American political development; 10 The origins of the carceral crisis: racial order as "law and order" in postwar American politics; 11 The modern presidency, social movements, and the administrative state: Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement; 12 The triumph of racial liberalism, the demise of racial justice; 13 Reconciling fractures: the intersection of race and religion in United States political development; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-08642-0

1-283-84192-4

1-136-08634-X

0-203-62602-8

9780203626023

OCLC:

821174074