- 392 pages
- English
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Racial Propositions
About This Book
This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures. Why did a state with a liberal political culture, an increasingly diverse populace, and a well-organized civil rights leadership roll back civil rights and anti-discrimination gains? Daniel Martinez HoSang finds that, contrary to popular perception, this phenomenon does not represent a new wave of "color-blind" policies, nor is a triumph of racial conservatism. Instead, in a book that goes beyond the conservative-liberal divide, HoSang uncovers surprising connections between the right and left that reveal how racial inequality has endured. Arguing that each of these measures was a proposition about the meaning of race and racism, his deft, convincing analysis ultimately recasts our understanding of the production of racial identity, inequality, and power in the postwar era.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: âGenteel Apartheidâ
- 1. âWe Have No Master Raceâ: Racial Liberalism and Political Whiteness
- 2. âRacial and Religious Tolerance Are Highly Desirable Objectivesâ: Fair Employment and the Vicissitudes of Tolerance, 1945â1960
- 3. âGet Back Your Rights!â: Fair Housing and the Right to Discriminate, 1960â1972
- 4. âWe Love All Kidsâ: School Desegregation, Busing, and the Triumph of Racial Innocence, 1972â1982
- 5. âHow Can You Help Unite California?â: English Only and the Politics of Exclusion, 1982â1990
- 6. âThey Keep Coming!â: The Tangled Roots of Proposition 187
- 7. âSpecial Interests Hijacked the Civil Rights Movementâ: Affirmative Action and Bilingual Education on the Ballot, 1996â2000
- 8. âDare We Forget the Lessons of History?â: Ward Connerlyâs Racial Privacy Initiative, 2001â2003
- Conclusion: Blue State Racism
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index