Unfinished business [[electronic resource] ] : racial equality in American history / / Michael J. Klarman
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| Autore: |
Klarman Michael J
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| Titolo: |
Unfinished business [[electronic resource] ] : racial equality in American history / / Michael J. Klarman
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896073 |
| Soggetto topico: | Equality - United States - History |
| African Americans - Civil rights - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Illustrations; Editor's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The Founding; CHAPTER TWO: The Antebellum Period; CHAPTER THREE: The Civil War and Reconstruction; CHAPTER FOUR: Retreat from Reconstruction; CHAPTER FIVE: White Supremacy Ascendant; CHAPTER SIX: The Progressive Era; CHAPTER SEVEN: Between the World Wars; CHAPTER EIGHT: World War II; CHAPTER NINE: Brown v. Board of Education; CHAPTER TEN: The Civil Rights Era; CHAPTER ELEVEN: To the Present; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates the course of racial equality in America, revealing that we have made less progress than we like to think. Indeed, African Americans have had to fight for everything they have achieved. Klarman highlights a variety of social and political factors that have influenced the path of racial progress--wars, migrations, urbanization, shifting political |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unfinished business |
| ISBN: | 0-19-029392-6 |
| 1-281-16294-9 | |
| 9786611162948 | |
| 0-19-804138-1 | |
| 1-4356-1780-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910657893703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Inalienable rights series ; ; bk. 2.