Deeply divided : racial politics and social movements in postwar America /

McAdam, Doug.

Deeply divided : racial politics and social movements in postwar America / Doug McAdam, Karina Kloos. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] - 396 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-387) and index.

How did we get into this mess? -- Postwar America: bipartisan consensus, the median voter, and the absence of social movements -- The center will not hold: the 1960s and the shifting racial geography of American politics -- The strange, consequential seventies -- The Reagan revolution? -- The slow-release revolution: 1988-2008 -- The Obama years: uncivil war -- Restoring American democracy.

9780199937851 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

2014000094


Democracy--United States.
Equality--United States.
Political parties--United States.
Divided government--United States.
Democracia--Estados Unidos.
Partidos políticos--Estados Unidos.
Igualdad--Estados Unidos.


United States--Politics and government.
United States--Social conditions.
Estados Unidos--Política y gobierno.

JK 1726 / M478d 2014

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