The two reconstructions [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for Black enfranchisement / / Richard M. Valelly

• Autore: Valelly Richard M
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1196/073/009
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Suffrage - History; African Americans - History - 1863-1877; African Americans - History - 1877-1964; African Americans - Politics and government; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Political parties - United States - History; Election law - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1865-1877; United States Politics and government 1945-1989
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-311) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. The Strange Career of African American Voting and Office-Holding -- Chapter Two. Forging the Coalition of 1867-1868 -- Chapter Three. Incomplete Institutionalization -- Chapter Four. Party-Building during the First Reconstruction -- Chapter Five. The Limits of Jurisprudence-Building -- Chapter Six. The Vortex of Racial Disenfranchisement -- Chapter Seven. Heralding the Second Reconstruction: The Coalition of 1948 -- Chapter Eight. The Coalition of 1961-1965 -- Chapter Nine. How the Second Reconstruction Stabilized -- Chapter Ten. Institutions and Enfranchisement -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the 2005 Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2005 V.O. Key, Jr. Award of the Southern Political Science Association The Reconstruction era marked a huge political leap for African Americans, who rapidly went from the status of slaves to voters and officeholders. Yet this hard-won progress lasted only a few decades. Ultimately a "second reconstruction"-associated with the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act-became necessary. How did the first reconstruction fail so utterly, setting the stage for the complete disenfranchisement of Southern black voters, and why did the second succeed? These are among the questions Richard M. Valelly answers in this fascinating history. The fate of black enfranchisement, he argues, has been closely intertwined with the strengths and constraints of our political institutions. Valelly shows how effective biracial coalitions have been the key to success and incisively traces how and why political parties and the national courts either rewarded or discouraged the formation of coalitions. Revamping our understanding of American race relations, The Two Reconstructions brilliantly explains a puzzle that lies at the heart of America's development as a political democracy.
• Titolo autorizzato: The two reconstructions
• ISBN: 9786612537998; 1-282-53799-7; 0-226-84527-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455619303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American politics and political economy.