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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? This book examines the enduring divisions of American racial politics and how these confl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Obama's inheritance. "That they may all be one" : America as a house divided
- pt. 2. The making and unmaking of racial hierarchies. "That is the last speech he will ever make" : The antebellum racial alliances
- "We of the North were thoroughly wrong" : How racial alliances mobilized ideas and law
- pt. 3. The trajectory of racial alliances. "This backdrop of entrenched inequality" : Affirmative action in work
- To "affirmatively further fair housing" : Enduring racial inequalities in American homes and mortgages
- "To elect one of their own" : Racial alliances and majority-minority districts
- "Our goal is to have one classification: American" : Vouchers for schools and the multiracial census
- "We can take the people out of the slums, but we cannot take the slums out of the people" : How today's racial alliances shape laws on crime and immigration
- pt. 4. America's inheritance. Prospects of the house divided.