Full Description
Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens' political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power—we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively.
Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make this extended argument. Together, they provide an understanding of American politics that challenges our conventional disciplinary tools of studying politics and our conservative political moment's dominant narrative of racial progress. This volume, the first to collect essays on the role of race in American political history and development, resituates race in American politics as an issue for sustained and broadened critical attention.
Contents
1. Race and American Political Development Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov and Dorian Warren 2. Race and the Dual State in Antebellum America Richard Young and Jeffrey Meiser 3. Charleston, the Vesey Conspiracy, and the Development of the Police Power Kathleen Sullivan 4. Racial Orders in American Political Development Desmond King and Rogers Smith 5. Hierarchy and Hybridity: The Internal Poscolonialism of Mid-Nineteenth Century American Exceptionalism Kevin Bruyneel 6. Reconstruction, Race, and Revolution Pamela Brandwein 7. Jim Crow Reform and the Democratization of the South Kimberley Johnson 8. Race's Reality: The NAACP Confronts Racism and Inequality in the Labor Movement, 1940-1965 Paul Frymer 9. Legacies of Slavery?: Race and Historical Causation in American Political Development Robert Lieberman 10. The Origins of the Carceral Crisis: Racial Order as 'Law and Order' Naomi Murakawa 11. The Modern Presidency, Social Movements, and the Administrative State: Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Movement Sidney Milkis 12. The Triumph of Racial Liberalism, the Demise of Racial Justice Daniel Martinez-HoSang 13. Fractured Believers: Race and Religion as Intersectional Aspects of United States Political Development Nancy Wadsworth
