African Americans and the New Policy Consensus - Retreat of the Liberal State?

List of contents

Theory and Concepts
Introduction by N. Jackson and M. Lashley
The Liberal State: What Retreat? An Examination of Philosophical Ambivalence and Continuity in Perspectives and Treatment of African Americans in the U.S. Political System by N. Jackson
Mythologies of "Cultural Politics" and the Discreet Charm of the Black Petite Bourgeoisie by A. Reed
Culture as Human Capital: Methodological and Policy Implications by R. Williams
African-American Empowerment Strategies and Responses
Reclaiming the State: Representative Government and Public Policy Access by M. Lashley
Who Represents the People? African Americans, Public Policy and Political Alienation during the Reagan-Bush Years by C. Herring
Governmental Retreat, the Dispossessed and the Politics of Black Self-reliant Development in the Age of Reaganism by F. Hayes
We Have Come This Far by Our Own Hands: A Tradition of Black Self-Help and Black Philanthropy, and the Growth of Corporate Philanthropic Giving to African Americans by M. Darling
The State Reinvents Itself
Discrimination in Mortgage Lending Markets as Rational Economic Behavior: Theory, Evidence and Public Policy by W. Jackson
Black Mecca Reconsidered: An Analysis of Atlanta's Post-Civil Rights Political Economy by C. Barnes
The Impact of Affirmative Policy on Correcting the Market Failures of Racial Discrimination: Are African Americans Better Off? by M. Lashley

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Melane N. Jackson, Marilyn Lashley

Product details

• Authors: Melane Jackson, Marilyn Lashley, Lashley Marilyn
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.1994
• EAN: 9780313288807
• ISBN: 978-0-313-28880-7
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Black & Asian Studies, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Politics, Law, and Government