Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Race And American Political Development
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415961530
Pages: 354 Pages, 1 Tables, Black And White; 2 Line Drawings, Black And White; 1 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 6/1/2008
Category: Political Structure & Processes