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Title: Marginalization Matters: Rethinking Race in the Analysis of State Politics and Policy

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: Race relations in the United States have changed dramatically since the 1960s. For African Americans, in particular, the transition has been momentous. Centuries of slavery, followed by a century of Jim Crow and deep ghettoization, once confined blacks to a sharply delineated subordinate status. In the mid-twentieth century, however, insurgent political action ruptured the racial regime (McAdam 1982). Meaningful citizenship rights were extended to racial minorities through landmark victories such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Branch 1998; Quadagno 1994). In the decades that followed, levels of anti-black prejudice declined and Americans increasingly endorsed norms of racial equality and opportunity (Schuman et al. 1997). As de jure discrimination faded, African Americans entered dominant societal institutions in larger numbers and a substantial black middle class . . .

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Authors: Soss, Joe; Bruch, Sarah K

Conference Name: The Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

Publisher Location: Boston, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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