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Invisible Enemy
The African American Freedom Struggle after 1965
America's Recent Past Series
Author: de Jong Greta
Language: EnglishSubject for Invisible Enemy:
Publication date: 04-2010
256 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 04-2010
258 p. · 16x23.9 cm · Hardback
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This highly accessible account of the evolution of American racism outlines how 'colorblind' approaches to discrimination ensured the perpetuation of racial inequality in the United States well beyond the 1960s.
- A highly accessible account of the evolution of American racism, its perpetuation, and black people's struggles for equality in the post-civil rights era
- Guides students to a better understanding of the experiences of black Americans and their ongoing struggles for justice, by highlighting the interconnectedness of African American history with that of the nation as a whole
- Highlights the economic and political functions that racism has served throughout the nation's history
- Discusses the continuation of the freedom movement beyond the 1960s to provide a comprehensive new historiography of racial equality and social justice
Introduction.
1. The Never Ending Story: American Racism from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement.
2. From the Freedom Movement to Free Markets: Racializing the War on Poverty and Colorblinding Jim Crow.
3. A System without Signs: The Invisible Racism of the Post-Civil Rights Era.
4. Fighting Jim Crow’s Shadow: Struggles for Racial Equality after 1965.
5. To See or Not to See: Debates over Affirmative Action.
6. Is This America? Electoral Politics after the Voting Rights Act.
7 Fir$st Cla$$ Citizen$hip: Struggles for Economic Justice.
8. All Around the World: The Freedom Struggle in a Global Context.
Notes.
Index.