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



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Titolo: Winning while losing? : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama / / edited by Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
Disciplina: 323.1196/073
Soggetto topico: African Americans - Civil rights
African Americans - Social conditions
Conservatism - United States
Presidents - United States
Racism - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations Political aspects History 20th century
Altri autori: OsgoodKenneth Alan <1971->  
WhiteDerrick E  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Winning while losing  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8130-4697-1
0-8130-4860-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807958303321
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Serie: Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency.