Still a house divided : race and politics in Obama's America /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Princeton studies in American politics: historical, international, and comparative perspectives
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Table of Contents:
- 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.