The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America - Brossura

Andrews, Marcellus

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0814706800 ISBN 13: 9780814706800

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of "diversity" and the fading memory of the Civil Rights movement to counter the aggressive conservative assault on liberal racial reform generally, and on black well-being, in particular. Yet appeals to fairness and justice, no matter how heartfelt, are bound to fail, Marcellus Andrews argues, since the economic foundations of the Civil Rights movement have been destroyed by the combined forces of globalization, technology, and tight government budgets.

The Political Economy of Hope and Fear fills an important intellectual gap in writing on race by developing a hard-nosed economic analysis of the links between competitive capitalism, racial hostility, and persistent racial inequality in post-Civil Rights America. Andrews speaks to the anger and frustration that blacks feel in the face of the nation's abandonment of racial equality as a worthy objective by showing how the considerable difficulties that black Americans face are related to fundamental changes in the economic fortunes of the U.S.

The Political Economy of Hope and Fear is an economist's plea for unsentimental thinking on matters of race to replace the mixture of liberal hand wringing and conservative mythmaking that currently passes for serious analysis about the nation's racial predicament.

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L'autore:

Marcellus Andrews is a Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Professor of Equality and Justice in America, Baruch CollegeCUNY.

Product Description:

This is an economist's plea for unsentimental thinking on racial matters in the USA, to replace what he regards as a mixture of liberal hand-wringing and conservative myth-making about the nation's racial predicament. Appeals to fairness and justice are bound to fail, he argues, since the economic foundations of the civil-rights movement have been destroyed by the combined forces of globalization, technology, and tight government budgets. The book presents an economic analysis of the links between competitive capitalism, racial hostility and persistent racial inequality in post-civil-rights America. It addresses the anger and frustration that blacks feel in the face of what they perceive as the nation's abandonment of racial equality as a worthy objective, and sets out to show how the difficulties faced by blacks are related to fundamental changes in the economic fortunes of the US.

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0814706800
• ISBN 13: 9780814706800
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232