Race and the Making of American LiberalismOxford University Press, 2005 M09 8 - 312 pages Race and the Making of American Liberalism traces the roots of the contemporary crisis of progressive liberalism deep into the nation's racial past. Horton argues that the contemporary conservative claim that the American liberal tradition has been rooted in a "color blind" conception of individual rights is innaccurate and misleading. In contrast, American liberalism has alternatively served both to support and oppose racial hierarchy, as well as socioeconomic inequality more broadly. Racial politics in the United States have repeatedly made it exceedingly difficult to establish powerful constituencies that understand socioeconomic equity as vital to American democracy and aspire to limit gross disparities of wealth, power, and status. Revitalizing such equalitarian conceptions of American liberalism, Horton suggests, will require developing new forms of racial and class identity that support, rather than sabotage this fundamental political commitment. |
Contents
3 | |
1 AntiCaste Liberalism | 15 |
2 Darwinian Liberalism | 37 |
3 Race and the Emancipation of Labor | 61 |
4 Inequality and White Supremacy | 95 |
5 Postwar Liberalism | 121 |
6 Race Class and the Civil Rights Movement | 139 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
activists African Americans agenda Alliance American liberalism American political anti-caste liberalism argued Bayard Rustin Black Worker campaign chap Chicago citizens citizenship Civil Rights Act civil rights bill Civil Rights movement coalition commitment Congressional Record Consequently conservative movement constitutional cultural Darwinian liberalism dominant economic election elites equalitarian equality equity established ethnic federal Foner force foundations Fourteenth Amendment ghetto goal groups History Ibid ideology immigrants important increasingly inequality issues Jim Crow Knights of Labor labor movement laissez-faire leaders ment Negro neoconservative Nixon organized People’s Party percent Plessy policies population Populist Populist movement position postwar liberalism poverty problems producer republicanism race racial discrimination racial politics racism radical Reconstruction Amendments reform represented Republican party Rustin segregation Senator Similarly slavery social liberals society South southern Sumner tion Tom Watson traditional U.S. Congress University Press urban vote War on Poverty Watson white supremacy Woodward York
References to this book
Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar Sergio Fabbrini No preview available - 2007 |