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020			_a9781503630925 _qpbk.
040			_beng _cJGU
041			_aeng
100			_aDarda, Joseph, _91637476 _eauthor
245			_aThe strange career of racial liberalism / _cJoseph Darda.
260			_aStanford : _bStanford University Press, _c2022.
520			_a"What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism―with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness―has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock."--
650			_aRace relations
650			_aRacism _933488
650			_aAnti-racism _9111967
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