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Deeply Divided - Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America (Hardcover)
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Deeply Divided - Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America (Hardcover)
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The United States is now more starkly divided in political terms
than at any time since the end of Reconstruction and more unequal
in material terms than on the eve of the Great Depression. How did
we go from the bipartisan cooperation and relative economic
equality of the war and postwar years to today's inequality and
partisan divisions? In Deeply Divided, sociologists Doug McAdam and
Karina Kloos argue that to represent contemporary political
polarization and economic inequality as byproducts of party
politics alone is to distort the complex origins of the mess in
which we find ourselves today. Rather, it is social movements, from
the Civil Rights movement to today's Tea Party, that have pushed
Republicans and Democrats toward the fringes. Owing in large part
to WWII and then to the Cold War and McCarthyism, the period from
1940 to 1960 was uniquely devoid of social movement activity.
Spared these pressures, both parties were able to hew to the
ideological middle, creating opportunities for bipartisan
cooperation and conditions for relative material equality. Social
movements re-emerged as a significant force in the 1960s, moving
the Democrats and Republicans sharply left and right respectively
over the course of the decade. The movements most responsible were
two linked struggles: the civil rights movement and the nationwide
"white backlash" that developed in response. Over the past
half-century social movements have continued to challenge parties
as the dominant mobilizing force in American politics. This is
especially true today on the right, where the Republican Party and
the policies of its House delegation largely reflect the views of
its mobilized movement wing. McAdam and Kloos stress that a
reversal of these trends is possible-if only we are able to
understand the challenges involved in overcoming political and
economic divisions.
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