Race and American Political Development

Joseph E. Lowndes, Julie Novkov, Dorian T. Warren, Joseph E. Lowndes, Julie Novkov, Dorian T. Warren

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780415961516
• eBook ISBN: 9781136086427
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Civil Rights in Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Race and American political development
• 2 Race and the dual state in the early American republic
• 3 Charleston, the Vesey conspiracy, and the development of the police power
• 4 Racial orders in American political development
• 5 Hierarchy and hybridity: the internal postcolonialism of mid-nineteenth-century American expansionism
• 6 Reconstruction, race, and revolution
• 7 Jim Crow reform and the democratization of the south
• 8 Race's reality: the NAACP confronts racism and inequality in the labor movement, 1940–65
• 9 Legacies of slavery? Race and historical causation in American political development
• 10 The origins of the carceral crisis: racial order as “law and order” in postwar American politics
• 11 The modern presidency, social movements, and the administrative state: Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement
• 12 The triumph of racial liberalism, the demise of racial justice
• 13 Reconciling fractures: the intersection of race and religion in United States political development
• Index