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The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Paperback)
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The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Paperback)
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How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if,
Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil
rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has
entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism,
he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers'
faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut
future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a
time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most
historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a
conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal
establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also
faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from
antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained
what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling
the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John
Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and
others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for
racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock.
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