Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action - The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Yuill is senior lecturer in American studies at Sunderland University. Klappentext In this enlightening and original new work, Kevin Yuill combines extensive archival research with a careful analysis of the intellectual climate of the era to examine not only the conditions that made Nixon's affirmative action policy decisions possible in the 1970s but also what motivated Nixon to act in the way that he did. He argues that in order to fully understand why Nixon embraced affirmative action, one must fully take into account the shifting context of American liberalism in the 1970s. In particular, Yuill contends that although government-enforced affirmative action did not fit into the postwar, growth-oriented liberalism, it emerged as an important regulatory policy blueprint in an era increasingly characterized by diminished horizons for social policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: "An Almost Hopeless Holding Action"Part I: From Myrdal to the Kerner Commission: The Rise and Fall of Barriers to Affirmative Action in the Postwar PeriodChapter 1: The Postwar Intellectual Milieu and the Taboo Against Affirmative ActionChapter 2: Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie: Policymaking and Affirmative Action Before NixonChapter 3: The Liberal Crisis, 1965-1969Chapter 4: Legitimation CrisisChapter 5: Affirmative Action: The Conservative OptionPart II: Richard Nixon: Liberal Anti-HeroChapter 6: The Genius of DeflationChapter 7: The Philadelphia PlanChapter 8: Revenue Sharing and Other Affirmative ActionsPart III: Affirmative Action and the New LiberalismChapter 9: Affirmative Action in an Age of LimitsChapter 10: Nixon: The Father of Identity PoliticsConclusionBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Yuill, Kevin L. Yuill, Yuill Kevin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2006
• EAN: 9780742549975
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4997-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: American Intellectual Culture; American Intellectual Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General