Racial Propositions Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California

Name: Racial Propositions Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California
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ISBN: 9780520266667

ISBN-10: 0520266668

ISBN-13: 9780520266667

Edition: 2010

Authors: Daniel Martinez HoSang

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This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures. Why did a state with a liberal political culture, an increasingly diverse populace, and a well-organized civil rights leadership roll back civil rights and anti-discrimination gains? Daniel Martinez HoSang finds that, contrary to popular perception, this phenomenon does not represent a new wave of "color-blind" policies, nor is a triumph of racial…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Jennifer L. Anderson is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.



List of Illustrations


Introduction: "Genteel Apartheid"



"We Have No Master Race": Racial Liberalism and Political Whiteness



"Racial and Religious Tolerance Are Highly Desirable Objectives": Fair Employment and the Vicissitudes of Tolerance, 1945-1960



"Get Back Your Rights!" Fair Housing and the Right to Discriminate, 1960-1972



"We Love All Kids": School Desegregation, Busing, and the Triumph of Racial Innocence, 1972-1982



"How Can You Help Unite California?" English Only and the Politics of Exclusion, 1982-1990



"They Keep Coming!" The Tangled Roots of Proposition 187



"Special Interests Hijacked the Civil Rights Movement": Affirmative Action and Bilingual Education on the Ballot, 1996-2000



"Dare We Forget the Lessons of History?" Ward Connerly's Racial Privacy Initiative, 2001-2003


Conclusion: Blue State Racism


Acknowledgments


Notes


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Index