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Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism

Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today

Bibliographic Data

ID9684983
AuthorsLawrence D Bobo (0000-0002-4280-0538, American Academy of Dermatology, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume140
Issue2
Pages11-36
Publication date2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_00091
OpenAlexW2030404660
LanguageEN
Citations received65
References cited16

In 1965, when Dædalus published two issues on “The Negro American,” civil rights in the United States had experienced a series of triumphs and setbacks. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended basic citizenship rights to African Americans, and there was hope for further positive change. Yet 1965 also saw violent confrontations in Selma, Alabama, and the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles that were fueled by racial tensions. Against this backdrop of progress and retreat, the contributors to the Dædalus volumes of the mid-1960s considered how socioeconomic factors affected the prosperity, well-being, and social standing of African Americans. Guest editor Lawrence D. Bobo suggests that today we inhabit a similarly unsettled place: situated somewhere between the overt discrimination of Jim Crow and the aspiration of full racial equality. In his introduction, Bobo paints a broad picture of the racial terrain in America today before turning the volume over to the contributors, who take up particular questions ranging from education and family support, to racial identity and politics, to employment and immigration

Citizenship · Civil rights · Criminology · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Race (biology · Racial equality · Racial integration · Racial politics · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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Citations per year4,64
Citation span2012 - 2026 (15)
Citation velocitycurrent
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