Americas New Racial Battle Lines - Protect Versus Repair

"What is happening to the politics of race in America? In America's New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair, Rogers Smith and Desmond King argue that the nation has entered a new, more severely polarized era of racial policy disputes, displacing older debates over color-blind versus race-targeted measures. Drawing on primary sources, interviews, and studies of federal, state, and local initiatives linked to global developments, the authors map the memberships and the goals of two rival racial policy alliances, comprised of grassroots activists, NGOs, government agencies, and wealthy funders on both sides. Today's conservatives promise to "protect" traditionalist Americans against assaults from what they see as a radical American Left. Today's progressives seek to "repair" all American institutions and practices that embody systemic racism. Though these sides have some common ground, they advance sharply opposed visions of America that threaten to make profound racial policy conflicts, sometimes erupting into violence, all too pervasive in the nation's present and future"--

About the author

Rogers M. Smith is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: Desmond King, King Desmond, Rogers M Smith, Rogers M. Smith, Rogers M. King Smith
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9780226834047
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83404-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Politics & government, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Central / national / federal government policies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Social discrimination and social justice