Winning While Losing

Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama

298 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

During the four decades separating the death of Martin Luther King and the election of Barack Obama, the meaning of civil rights became increasingly complex. Civil rights leaders made great strides in breaking down once-impermeable racial barriers, but they also suffered many political setbacks in their attempts to remedy centuries of discrimination. Complicating matters, the conservative turn in American political life transformed the national conversation about race and civil rights in surprising ways.This pioneering collection of essays explores the paradoxical nature of civil rights politics in the years following the 1960s civil rights movement by chronicling the ways in which presidential politics both advanced and constrained the quest for racial equality in the United States.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• ISBN: 9780813064536
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.11.2017
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Longleaf Services on Behalf of U of Florida Press
• Herausgegeben von: Kenneth Osgood, Derrick E White