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020 _a9780813048604
020 _z9780813049083 (alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aE185.615
_b.W547 2013
082 0 0 _a323.1196/073
_223
245 0 0 _aWinning while losing?
_h[electronic resource] :
_bcivil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama /
_cedited by Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White.
260 _aGainesville :
_bUniversity Press of Florida,
_cc2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.)
490 1 _aThe Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aIntroduction. 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.
520 _aExplores 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aConservatism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aRacism
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xCivil rights.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRace relations
_xPolitical aspects
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aWhite, Derrick E.
700 1 _aOsgood, Kenneth Alan,
_d1971-
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813048604/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33914
_d33914