TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Derrick E.
AU  - Osgood,Kenneth Alan
TI  - Winning while losing?: civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama 
T2  - The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency
SN  - 9780813048604
AV  - E185 .W566 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - United States
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Racism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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