Separate and Unequal African Americans and the US Federal Government

Name: Separate and Unequal African Americans and the US Federal Government
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ISBN: 9780195336221

ISBN-10: 0195336224

ISBN-13: 9780195336221

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Desmond King, Government and Government and Professorial Fellow

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"In this landmark book, Desmond King reveals and corrects a glaring gap at the epicenter of studies of racial inequality and political development in the United States: their blindness to the pivotal role of the state in making race. With historical precision and analytic rigor, he demonstrates how, for seven decades following the legal affirmation of the doctrine 'separate and equal' in 1896, the federal government both bolstered and expanded racial separation, in effect nationalizing the pattern of black subordination elaborated by Southern segregationists in the aftermath of abolition. The abiding social and symbolic marginality of the African American community in US society thus…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Desmond King is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, and Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University.



List of FiguresList of Abbreviations



The Historical Context



The Politics of Segregation in Post-Reconstruction America



Segregation in the US Federal Government



Joining the Government: 'Because I Dared to be Black'



Working in a Federal Agency: Social Ostracism and Discrimination



The Federal Government and Segregation Beyond Washington



'A Great Shadow over our ""Civil Rights""': Fighting for the Government



Serving Time with the Government: Federal Penitentiaries



The Federal G