Author: Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412836814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Fairmont Papers
The Fairmont Papers
Author: Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412836814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Fairmont Papers
Proceedings and Papers of the ... Annual Educational Conference Held at West Virginia University
Author: West Virginia University. Educational ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Proceedings and Papers of the Annual Educational Conference Held at West Virginia University
Author: The Coal Trade Bulletin
Author: The Loneliness of the Black Republican
Author: Leah Wright RigueurPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691173648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The story of black conservatives in the Republican Party from the New Deal to Ronald Reagan Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and actions of black Republican activists, officials, and politicians, from the era of the New Deal to Ronald Reagan's presidential ascent in 1980. Their unique stories reveal African Americans fighting for an alternative economic and civil rights movement—even as the Republican Party appeared increasingly hostile to that very idea. Black party members attempted to influence the direction of conservatism—not to destroy it, but rather to expand the ideology to include black needs and interests. As racial minorities in their political party and as political minorities within their community, black Republicans occupied an irreconcilable position—they were shunned by African American communities and subordinated by the GOP. In response, black Republicans vocally, and at times viciously, critiqued members of their race and party, in an effort to shape the attitudes and public images of black citizens and the GOP. And yet, there was also a measure of irony to black Republicans' "loneliness": at various points, factions of the Republican Party, such as the Nixon administration, instituted some of the policies and programs offered by black party members. What's more, black Republican initiatives, such as the fair housing legislation of senator Edward Brooke, sometimes garnered support from outside the Republican Party, especially among the black press, Democratic officials, and constituents of all races. Moving beyond traditional liberalism and conservatism, black Republicans sought to address African American racial experiences in a distinctly Republican way. The Loneliness of the Black Republican provides a new understanding of the interaction between African Americans and the Republican Party, and the seemingly incongruous intersection of civil rights and American conservatism.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Our Paper
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Biennial Report
Author: West Virginia. State Dept. of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Fourth Estate
Author: Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America
Author: Michael L. OndaatjePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206878
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In the last three decades, a brand of black conservatism espoused by a controversial group of African American intellectuals has become a fixture in the nation's political landscape, its proponents having shaped policy debates over some of the most pressing matters that confront contemporary American society. Their ideas, though, have been neglected by scholars of the African American experience—and much of the responsibility for explaining black conservatism's historical and contemporary significance has fallen to highly partisan journalists. Typically, those pundits have addressed black conservatives as an undifferentiated mass, proclaiming them good or bad, right or wrong, color-blind visionaries or Uncle Toms. In Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America, Michael L. Ondaatje delves deeply into the historical archive to chronicle the origins of black conservatism in the United States from the early 1980s to the present. Focusing on three significant policy issues—affirmative action, welfare, and education—Ondaatje critically engages with the ideas of nine of the most influential black conservatives. He further documents how their ideas were received, both by white conservatives eager to capitalize on black support for their ideas and by activists on the left who too often sought to impugn the motives of black conservatives instead of challenging the merits of their claims. While Ondaatje's investigation uncovers the themes and issues that link these voices together, he debunks the myth of a monolithic black conservatism. Figures such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the Hoover Institution's Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele, and cultural theorist John McWhorter emerge as individuals with their own distinct understandings of and relationships to the conservative political tradition.