Racial Propositions

Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California

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ID19905232
AuthorsDaniel Martinez Hosang, Daniel Hosang (0000-0003-0436-471X, corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages392
Publication date2019-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRacial Propositions (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520947719
OpenAlexW647906504
Open LibraryOL29601845M
ISBN9780520947719
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDrMG7AgAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received82

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 As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures.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

Affirmative action · Ballot · Civil rights · Desegregation · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racial integration · Racial politics · Racism · Sociology · State (computer science) · Voting · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · California · politics and government · race relations · Referendum · united states

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