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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453651703321

Titolo

Winning while losing? : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama / / edited by Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-4697-1

0-8130-4860-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency

Altri autori (Persone)

OsgoodKenneth Alan <1971->

WhiteDerrick E

Disciplina

323.1196/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights

African Americans - Social conditions

Conservatism - United States

Presidents - United States

Racism - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Race relations Political aspects History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.