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Still a house divided : race and politics in Obama's America
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- Creator
- Desmond S. King & Rogers M. Smith
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- x, 381 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786613169013, 1283169010, 0691159629, 9780691159621, 0691142637, 9780691142630, 9781400839766, 6613169013, 9781283169011, 1400839769
- OCLC
- ocn992470943, on1241859920, ocn724663870, ocn744904904, ocn751691226, ocn979758309
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-348) and index.
- pt. 1. Obama's inheritance. "That they may all be one" : America as a house divided -- pt. 2. The making and unmaking of racial hierarchies. "That is the last speech he will ever make" : The antebellum racial alliances -- "We of the North were thoroughly wrong" : How racial alliances mobilized ideas and law -- pt. 3. The trajectory of racial alliances. "This backdrop of entrenched inequality" : Affirmative action in work -- To "affirmatively further fair housing" : Enduring racial inequalities in American homes and mortgages -- "To elect one of their own" : Racial alliances and majority-minority districts -- "Our goal is to have one classification: American" : Vouchers for schools and the multiracial census -- "We can take the people out of the slums, but we cannot take the slums out of the people" : How today's racial alliances shape laws on crime and immigration -- pt. 4. America's inheritance. Prospects of the house divided