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

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: King, Desmond S.
Otros Autores: Smith, Rogers M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; 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 5: To "affirmatively further fair housing": Enduring Racial Inequalities in American Homes and Mortgages.