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Separate and Unequal - African Americans and the US Federal Government (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Separate and Unequal - African Americans and the US Federal Government (Paperback, Revised edition)
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"In this landmark book, Desmond King reveals and corrects a glaring
gap at the epicenter of studies of racial inequality and political
development in the United States: their blindness to the pivotal
role of the state in making race. With historical precision and
analytic rigor, he demonstrates how, for seven decades following
the legal affirmation of the doctrine 'separate and equal' in 1896,
the federal government both bolstered and expanded racial
separation, in effect nationalizing the pattern of black
subordination elaborated by Southern segregationists in the
aftermath of abolition. The abiding social and symbolic marginality
of the African American community in US society thus emerges, not
as an inert legacy of slavery or a result of its alleged cultural
failings, but as a creature of state policies studiously enforced
by the federal bureaucracy until the 1960s. Enriched by a
postscript that reviews and revises its core argument, this new
edition of Separate and Unequal is one that every serious student
of racial domination and comparative politics will want to read and
engage."--Loic Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley, and
Centre de sociologie europeenne, Paris
Despite major strides in combating racial segregation and
oppression since the Civil Rights movement, racial inequality
remains a persistent and vexing problem in America today. At the
forefront of recent scholarship highlighting the central influence
of the US federal government on race relations well before the
1960s, Separate and Unequal uncovers, through archival research,
how the federal government used its power to impose a segregated
pattern of race relations among its employees and, through
itsprograms, upon the whole of American society. In a new
postscript to this revised edition, Desmond King places his
original, groundbreaking analysis in the context of recent studies
and connects the legacy of exclusionary programs and policies to
current racial disparities in welfare reform, prisons, and
education.
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