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Winning while losing? : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama / edited by Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813048604
  • 9780813046976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E185 .W566 2013
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Contents:
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.
Subject: Explores 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.
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Introduction. 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.

Explores 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.

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