The color of freedom
Subtitle: race and contemporary American liberalism
By: David Carroll Cochran.
Series: SUNY series in Afro-American studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Race discrimination -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; Civil society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Using liberal political theory to explore the politics of race in the United States, The Color of Freedom offers a fresh, distinctive, and compelling analysis of the country's continuing dilemma of race. Cochran develops an argument about how contemporary liberalism understands race, what is inadequate about this understanding, and how it can develop a better one.

Sitting at the intersection of theory and practice, this book offers an impressive example of how the two must inform each other, especially when it comes to opening up new ways of thinking about old and frustrating problems like that of race in American life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-197) and index.