Ghosts of Jim Crow : ending racism in post-racial America / F. Michael Higginbotham.
When America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post-racial" society. Was this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation nearly severed in half by slavery, and whose racial fault lines are arguably among its most e...
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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| Physical Description: | x, 316 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Creating the paradigm: racial hierarchy
- Constructing racial categories from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- Maintaining white dominance during Reconstruction
- Preventing black excellence between Plessy and Brown
- Sustaining the paradigm: white isolation and black separation and subordination
- Maintaining racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods from Brown to the 21st century
- Victimizing blacks in the 21st century
- Ending the paradigm: building a post-racial America
- Black empowerment and self-help
- Integration and equality.