TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Derrick E.
AU  - Osgood,Kenneth Alan
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Winning while losing?: civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama 
T2  - The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency
SN  - 9780813048604
AV  - E185.615 .W547 2013
U1  - 323.1196/073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - United States
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Racism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction. The paradox of success: civil rights and the presidency in a new era / Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White -- Zigs and zags: Richard Nixon and the new politics of race / John D. Skrentny -- African American civil rights and conservative mobilization in the Jimmy Carter years / Joseph Crespino and Asher Smith -- Ronald Reagan and the leadership conference on civil rights: battles won and wars lost / Mary Frances Berry -- Rebuilding institutions and redefining issues: the Reagan Justice Department and the reconstruction of rights / Richard L. Pacelle Jr -- Civil rights policymaking in the Clinton administration: in Reagan?s shadow / Robert C. Smith -- Old vinegar in a new bottle: vote denial in the 2000 presidential election and beyond / Charles L. Zelden -- George W. Bush, compassionate conservatism, and the limits of "racial realism" / Steven F. Lawson -- Civil rights and the first black president: Barack Obama and the politics of racial equality / Ronald W. Walters with Robert C. Smith -- Conclusion: more equal and less equal since the 1970s / Thomas Borstelmann
N2  - Explores the relationship between race and the rise of conservativism in America and the political setbacks that remained in the way of attempts to remedy oppression and discrimination
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813048604/
ER  -