Race and American Political DevelopmentJoseph E. Lowndes, Julie Novkov, Dorian T. Warren Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power—we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively. Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make this extended argument. Together, they provide an understanding of American politics that challenges our conventional disciplinary tools of studying politics and our conservative political moment’s dominant narrative of racial progress. This volume, the first to collect essays on the role of race in American political history and development, resituates race in American politics as an issue for sustained and broadened critical attention. |
Contents
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3 Charleston the Vesey conspiracy and the development of the police power | 59 |
4 Racial orders in American political development | 80 |
the internal postcolonialism of midnineteenthcentury American expansionism | 106 |
6 Reconstruction race and revolution | 125 |
7 Jim Crow reform and the democratization of the south | 155 |
the NAACP confronts racism and inequality in the labor movement 194065 | 180 |
9 Legacies of slavery? Race and historical causation in American political development | 206 |
racial order as law and order in postwar American politics | 234 |
Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement | 256 |
12 The triumph of racial liberalism the demise of racial justice | 288 |
the intersection of race and religion in United States political development | 312 |
Index | 337 |
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