Still a house divided : race and politics in Obama's America /

Main Author: King, Desmond S.
Other Authors: Smith, Rogers M.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Series:Princeton studies in American politics: historical, international, and comparative perspectives
Subjects:
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245 1 |a Still a house divided :  |b race and politics in Obama's America /  |c Desmond S. King & Rogers M. Smith. 
260 1 |a Princeton, NJ :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c c2011. 
300 1 |a x, 381 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Princeton studies in American politics: historical, international, and comparative perspectives 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-348) and index. 
505 1 |a pt. 1. Obama's inheritance. "That they may all be one" : America as a house divided -- pt. 2. The making and unmaking of racial hierarchies. "That is the last speech he will ever make" : The antebellum racial alliances -- "We of the North were thoroughly wrong" : How racial alliances mobilized ideas and law -- pt. 3. The trajectory of racial alliances. "This backdrop of entrenched inequality" : Affirmative action in work -- To "affirmatively further fair housing" : Enduring racial inequalities in American homes and mortgages -- "To elect one of their own" : Racial alliances and majority-minority districts -- "Our goal is to have one classification: American" : Vouchers for schools and the multiracial census -- "We can take the people out of the slums, but we cannot take the slums out of the people" : How today's racial alliances shape laws on crime and immigration -- pt. 4. America's inheritance. Prospects of the house divided. 
650 1 |a African Americans  |x Politics and government 
651 1 |a United States  |x Race relations  |x Political aspects  |x History. 
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