Without Justice For All
The New Liberalism And Our Retreat From Racial Equality
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 25. February 1999
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Hardback
480 pages
978-0-8133-2050-2 (ISBN)
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Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy of American leaders has contributed to the social stratification and inequality which plagues America today. By looking at the history of our social policies since the New Deal, as well as the status of specific policy arenas, contributors show how political shifts over the past fifty years have moved us away from a more egalitarian politics. Throughout, the central thread is a critical response to a now conventional argument that liberalism must be reconfigured in ways that retreat from immediate identification with the interests of labor, minorities, and the poor. From a look at federal housing policy and the failure of New Deal social programs to an examination of long established public assistance programs and Affirmative Action, Without Justice for All, written for both students and general readers, is timely and important contribution to the dialogue on race in modern America. }In recent years, Americas political and policy leaders have reshaped the nations approach to race and equality.
Our current political orthodoxy has turned away from the long held view that structural forces in our economy, public policies, and history serve to reinforce our nations inequalities. This new cadre of leaders favors the perception that most inequalities are the results of defects or miscalculations by the minorities or inner city populations most affected. But have these changing notions of race in America served to shape the current patterns and definitions of inequality for better? Or for worse? Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy of American leaders has contributed to the social stratification and inequality which plagues America today. By looking at the history of our social policies since the New Deal, as well as the status of specific policy arenas, contributors show how political shifts over the past fifty years have moved us away from a more egalitarian politics.
Throughout, the central thread is a critical response to a now conventional argument that liberalism must be reconfigured in ways that retreat from immediate identification with the interests of labor, minorities, and the poor. From a look at federal housing policy and the failure of New Deal social programs to an examination of long established public assistance programs and Affirmative Action, Without Justice for All, written for both students and general readers, is timely and important contribution to the dialogue on race in modern America. }
Our current political orthodoxy has turned away from the long held view that structural forces in our economy, public policies, and history serve to reinforce our nations inequalities. This new cadre of leaders favors the perception that most inequalities are the results of defects or miscalculations by the minorities or inner city populations most affected. But have these changing notions of race in America served to shape the current patterns and definitions of inequality for better? Or for worse? Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy of American leaders has contributed to the social stratification and inequality which plagues America today. By looking at the history of our social policies since the New Deal, as well as the status of specific policy arenas, contributors show how political shifts over the past fifty years have moved us away from a more egalitarian politics.
Throughout, the central thread is a critical response to a now conventional argument that liberalism must be reconfigured in ways that retreat from immediate identification with the interests of labor, minorities, and the poor. From a look at federal housing policy and the failure of New Deal social programs to an examination of long established public assistance programs and Affirmative Action, Without Justice for All, written for both students and general readers, is timely and important contribution to the dialogue on race in modern America. }
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English
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United States
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Taylor & Francis Inc
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
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978-0-8133-2050-2 (9780813320502)
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Content
Introduction: The New Liberal Orthodoxy on Race and Inequality (Adolph Reed Jr.) The New Orthodoxy On Race And InequalityBill Clinton and the Politics of the New Liberalism (Philip A. Klinker) Why Cant They Be Like Our Grandparents and Other Racial Fairy Tales (Micaela Di Leonardo) The Great Family Fraud of Postwar America (Brett Williams) Race, Ideology And Social Policy: Beneath A Mystified RhetoricRace in the American Welfare State: The Ambiguities of Universalistic Social Policy Since The New Deal (Michael K. Brown) Symbolic Politics and Urban Policies: Why African Americans Got So Little from the Democrats (Dennis R. Judd) Playing by the Rules: Welfare Reform and the New Authoritarian State (Mimi Abramovitz and Ann Withorn) The New Face of Urban Renewal: The Near North Redevelopment Initiative and the Cabrini-Green Neighborhood (Larry Bennett and Adolph Reed Jr.) Ideology And Attacks On Antiracist Public PolicyOccupational Apartheid in America: Race, Labor Market Segmentation, and Affirmative Action (Stephen Steinberg) The Voting Rights Movement in Perspective (Alex Willingham) A New Black AccomodationismSelf-Help, Black Conservatives, and the Reemergence of Black Privatism (Preston H. Smith) The Crisis of the Black Male: A New Ideology in Black Politics (Willie M. Leggette) ConclusionsToward a More Perfect Union: Beyond Old Liberalism and Neoliberalism (Rogers M. Smith)