African Americans and the New Policy Consensus
Subtitle: Retreat of the Liberal State? (Contributions in Political Science)
Contributors: Marilyn E. Lashley (Editor); Melanie Njeri Jackson (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: September 30, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780313288807
Subjects: Black studies; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Political science & theory; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights Of Blacks; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Political Science / Civil Rights; 1981-1989; 20th century; African Americans; History; Liberalism; Politics and government; United States
First sentence: A survey of the African American political landscape during the post-Civil Rights decades reveals a common and pervasive sense of the inadequacy of strategies pursued to remedy the legacy of racism responsible for enduring social, political, and economic inequalities that distinguish the lives of African Americans.