The End of The Second Reconstruction : Obama, Trump and the Crisis of Civil Rights / Richard Johnson
พิมพ์ครั้งที่
1st ed.
พิมพลักษณ์
Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2020
จำนวนหน้า
vii, 216 pages ; 22 cm.
หมายเหตุบรรณานุกรม
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index.
หมายเหตุสารบัญ
1. The Rise of the First Reconstruction -- 2. The Fall of the First Reconstruction -- 3. The Rise of the Second Reconstruction -- 4. The Compromise of 2016 -- 5. Reconstructing Reconstruction
สาระสังเขป
The gains of the Reconstruction era after the US Civil War, which saw African Americans given full democratic rights, were totally reversed within a generation. There is a serious risk that the advances of the civil rights era - the 'Second Reconstruction' - will go the same way unless we learn from the past and appreciate that American democracy has never been a story of linear progress. Skilfully analysing the similarities - and the differences - between the the two periods, Johnson outlines a political strategy for avoiding a disastrous repetition of history in in the twilight of the Second Reconstruction. Anyone interested in seeing the Trump presidency in wider historical context, from students of race, politics and history in the US to the interested general reader, will find this book an essential and sobering guide to our past - and, if we're not careful, our future.
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