Table of Contents:
“…The continued colonization of African Americans -- Contemporary African-American insecurity -- The building of incapacity : race, poverty, subordination and gaps in health services -- The impact of slavery and Jim Crow on today's African-American communities -- The emerging and continued importance of racial stigma -- Gaps in government services and regulations : maintaining incapacity and insecurity -- Insecurity on the streets and the illegitimacy of the criminal justice system -- The systematic undoing of civil rights and federal supports for African Americans -- The promise of Reconstruction --
Jim Crow law and customs : a return to white hegemony -- States' rights as a form of resistance, black deaths, and freedom fighters in the South -- Twentieth century civil rights legislation : expanding civil rights and protecting voting rights -- The incubation of white populism -- The triumph of the white nationalists -- The making of the American working class : a brief historical discussion -- The emergence of white nationalism in the twentieth century -- Advancing democratic Americanism -- Ideas for diminishing white nationalism -- Targeted interventions -- Ending insecurity brought on by unacceptable living conditions -- Reforming criminal justice in the twenty-first century -- Considering the case for reparations -- White nationalism trumped by democratic Americanism.…”
Call Number: E184.A1 B5526 2019
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