Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black AmericansTransaction Publishers, 01/01/1993 - 358 páginas Ginzberg and Eichner, in an innovative interpretation of basic political conflict in the American experience, reveal how democracy evolved without making a place for African Americans. The volume emphasizes the national, rather than regional, character of racial prejudice. |
Índice
| 1 | |
Colonist and Slave | 11 |
The Founding Fathers | 32 |
The Great Silence | 66 |
The Agony of Lincoln | 96 |
Victory Without Commitment | 129 |
In Search of a Permanent Majority | 163 |
The Reconstructed South | 199 |
The Mind of the North | 232 |
The War for Democracy | 265 |
The New Federalism | 290 |
From Freedom to Equality | 314 |
The Promise Still Delayed 1993 | 338 |
| 357 | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
The Troublesome Presence: American Democracy and the Negro Eli Ginzberg,Alfred S. Eichner Visualização de excertos - 1964 |
The Troublesome Presence: American Democracy and the Negro Eli Ginzberg,Alfred S. Eichner Visualização de excertos - 1964 |
The Troublesome Presence: American Democracy and the Negro Eli Ginzberg,Alfred S. Eichner Visualização de excertos - 1964 |
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