Winning while losing? : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
©2013.
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Colección: | Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.