1st Edition
The Dynamics of Racial Progress Economic Inequality and Race Relations Since Reconstruction
By Antoine L. Joseph
Copyright 2005
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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Race relations in the United States have long been volatile - marked on the one hand by distrust and violence, but tempered on the other by periods of conciliation, integration and relative harmony. This path-breaking blend of history, sociology, political science and economics argues that the key factor determining the quality of race relations is economic: When economic equality spreads so do... Read more
Introduction; 1. The Resurgence of Racial Conflict; 2. Racial Politics and Stable Majorities; 3. The Decline of Racial Democratization; 4. Resurgent Democratization and the End of White Supremacy; 5. The Changing Dynamics of Class and Labor; 6. Inequality and Popular Sovereignty; 7. Rising Economic Inequality, Racial Polarization and the Prospects for the Future; Bibliography
Biography
Joseph, Antoine L.
