
Winning While Losing
Civil Rights, the Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama
University Press of Florida
Published on 30. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
298 pages
978-0-8130-6453-6 (ISBN)
Description
During the four decades separating the death of Martin Luther King and the election of Barack Obama, the meaning of civil rights became increasingly complex. Civil rights leaders made great strides in breaking down once-impermeable racial barriers, but they also suffered many political setbacks in their attempts to remedy centuries of discrimination. Complicating matters, the conservative turn in American political life transformed the national conversation about race and civil rights in surprising ways.
This pioneering collection of essays explores the paradoxical nature of civil rights politics in the years following the 1960s civil rights movement by chronicling the ways in which presidential politics both advanced and constrained the quest for racial equality in the United States.
This pioneering collection of essays explores the paradoxical nature of civil rights politics in the years following the 1960s civil rights movement by chronicling the ways in which presidential politics both advanced and constrained the quest for racial equality in the United States.
Reviews / Votes
This remarkable study offers breakthrough findings and insights about the state of civil rights policies in the post-civil rights era."" - Hanes Walton Jr., coauthor of American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom""Eschewing easy absolutes, Winning While Losing presents a carefully nuanced interpretation of the subtle gains and losses experienced by liberals and conservatives, by Democrats and Republicans, and by proponents of racial justice and their opponents"". - Harvard Sitkoff, author of Toward Freedom Land
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Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8130-6453-6 (9780813064536)
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Kenneth Osgood | Derrick E. White
Winning While Losing
Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama
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10/2017
University Press of Florida
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Persons
Kenneth Osgood, director of the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs at the Colorado School of Mines, is the coeditor of Selling War in the Media Age.
Derrick E. White, associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of The Challenge of Blackness.
Derrick E. White, associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of The Challenge of Blackness.