{"product_id":"the-strange-career-of-racial-liberalism-paperback","title":"The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Darda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Americans learned to wait on time for racial change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has entrenched it further? In \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Career of Racial Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMost historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal \"frontlash,\" from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Darda\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Texas Christian University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHow White Men Won the Culture Wars: A History of Veteran America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45610585849900,"sku":"9781503630925","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/the-strange-career-of-racial-liberalism-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}