Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965

Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the...
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Author: Eric Schickler
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Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965 by Schickler, Eric

Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965

BD$250.36

Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965

BD$250.36
Author: Eric Schickler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites--such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater--set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on racial issues during the 1960s. Racial Realignment instead argues that top party leaders were actually among the last to move, and that their choices were dictated by changes that had already occurred beneath them. Drawing upon rich data sources and original historical research, Eric Schickler shows that the two parties' transformation on civil rights took place gradually over decades.

Schickler reveals that Democratic partisanship, economic liberalism, and support for civil rights had crystallized in public opinion, state parties, and Congress by the mid-1940s. This trend was propelled forward by the incorporation of African Americans and the pro-civil-rights Congress of Industrial Organizations into the Democratic coalition. Meanwhile, Republican partisanship became aligned with economic and racial conservatism. Scrambling to maintain existing power bases, national party elites refused to acknowledge these changes for as long as they could, but the civil rights movement finally forced them to choose where their respective parties would stand.

Presenting original ideas about political change, Racial Realignment sheds new light on twentieth and twenty-first century racial politics.

Author: Eric Schickler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/26/2016
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780691153872


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2016

About the Author
Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Disjointed Pluralism and Filibuster (both Princeton).

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