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This highly accessible account of the evolution of American racism outlines how 'colorblind' approaches to discrimination ensured the perpetuation of racial inequality in the United States well beyond the 1960s.
- A highly accessible account of the evolution of American racism, its perpetuation, and black people's struggles for equality in the post-civil rights era
- Guides students to a better understanding of the experiences of black Americans and their ongoing struggles for justice, by highlighting the interconnectedness of African American history with that of the nation as a whole
- Highlights the economic and political functions that racism has served throughout the nation's history
- Discusses the continuation of the freedom movement beyond the 1960s to provide a comprehensive new historiography of racial equality and social justice
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the never ending story 27
Jim Crow and its Shadow: Dual Challenges for the Black
Freedom Movement
Disparities in the types of housing, schools, and jobs available to black
people compared with white Americans in the mid-twentieth century rein-
forced the racial lessons of past eras. Being white meant having access to
quality housing, good schools, higher education, and work that paid enough
to enable participation in the nation’s burgeoning consumer culture. In
contrast, black Americans remained confined to low-wage jobs, deteriorat-
ing housing, and inferior schools that did not prepare them well to partici-
pate in the postwar economy. Most white Americans did not perceive the
privileges they enjoyed under this system as unearned advantages. They
attributed their success to hard work and individual effort, ignoring the role
that New Deal social programs and government subsidization of suburban
Figure 1.1 Black children playing outside the Ida B. Wells public housing project
in Chicago, 1973
Source: John H. White/National Archives and Records Administration 412-
DA-13707
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- INVISIBLE ENEMY: The African American Freedom Struggle after 1965