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Ghosts of Jim Crow : Ending Racism in Post-Racial America /

Discusses the political, economic, educational, and social reasons the United States is not a "post-racial" society and argues that legal reform can successfully create a "post-racial" America

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Higginbotham, F. Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creating the paradigm: racial hierarchy
  • Constructing racial categories from the nation's founding to the Civil War
  • Maintaining white dominance during Reconstruction
  • Preventing black excellence between Plessy and Brown
  • Sustaining the paradigm: white isolation and black separation and subordination
  • Maintaining racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods from Brown to the 21st century
  • Victimizing blacks in the 21st century
  • Ending the paradigm: building a post-racial America
  • Black empowerment and self-help
  • Integration and equality.