In the wake of the black civil rights movement, other disadvantaged
groups of Americans began to make headway--Latinos, women, Asian
Americans, and the disabled found themselves the beneficiaries of
new laws and policies--and by the early 1970s a minority rights
revolution was well underway. In the first book to take a broad
perspective on this wide-ranging and far-reaching phenomenon, John
D. Skrentny exposes the connections between the diverse actions and
circumstances that contributed to this revolution--and that forever
changed the face of American politics.
Though protest and lobbying played a role in bringing about new
laws and regulations--touching everything from wheelchair access to
women's athletics to bilingual education--what Skrentny describes
was not primarily a bottom-up story of radical confrontation.
Rather, elites often led the way, and some of the most prominent
advocates for expanding civil rights were the conservative
Republicans who later emerged as these policies' most vociferous
opponents. This book traces the minority rights revolution back to
its roots not only in the black civil rights movement but in the
aftermath of World War II, in which a world consensus on equal
rights emerged from the Allies' triumph over the oppressive regimes
of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and then the Soviet Union. It
also contrasts failed minority rights development for white ethnics
and gays/lesbians with groups the government successfully
categorized with African Americans. Investigating these links,
Skrentny is able to present the world as America's leaders saw it;
and so, to show how and why familiar figures--such as Lyndon
Johnson, Richard Nixon, and, remarkablyenough, conservatives like
Senator Barry Goldwater and Robert Bork--created and advanced
policies that have made the country more egalitarian but left it
perhaps as divided as ever.
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