Winning while losing? : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama /

Winning while losing? : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama / edited by Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White. - 1 online resource (299 pages) - The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency . - Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction. The paradox of success: civil rights and the presidency in a new era / Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White -- Zigs and zags: Richard Nixon and the new politics of race / John D. Skrentny -- African American civil rights and conservative mobilization in the Jimmy Carter years / Joseph Crespino and Asher Smith -- Ronald Reagan and the leadership conference on civil rights: battles won and wars lost / Mary Frances Berry -- Rebuilding institutions and redefining issues: the Reagan Justice Department and the reconstruction of rights / Richard L. Pacelle Jr -- Civil rights policymaking in the Clinton administration: in Reagan?s shadow / Robert C. Smith -- Old vinegar in a new bottle: vote denial in the 2000 presidential election and beyond / Charles L. Zelden -- George W. Bush, compassionate conservatism, and the limits of "racial realism" / Steven F. Lawson -- Civil rights and the first black president: Barack Obama and the politics of racial equality / Ronald W. Walters with Robert C. Smith -- Conclusion: more equal and less equal since the 1970s / Thomas Borstelmann.

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African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Conservatism--United States.
Presidents--United States.
Racism--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.


United States--Race relations--Political aspects--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

E185.615 / .W547 2013

323.1196/073