A Nation Apart : The African-American Experience and White Nationalism

This book examines the ongoing struggle for social justice by and for African Americans. Examining the persistent rolling back of civil and voting rights for this population and other minorities since the end of Reconstruction, the author discusses the continued colonization of African Americans and the rise of white nationalism before considering what can be done to create a democratic version of Americanism. With discussions on the possibilities that exist for eliminating health disparities, increasing income and reducing wealth inequality, enhancing the urban environment and housing stability, reforming criminal justice, and reconsidering the case for reparations for the descendants of slaves, the author considers whether white nationalism is a threat to Democratic Americanism and if the declining fortunes of working class Americans can be reversed by means of a "Marshall Plan" for the United States. A study of the sustained racial injustices of American society over the last century and a half and their possible remedies, __A Nation Apart__ will appeal to all those with interests in race and ethnicity and questions of social justice. Cover Endoresment Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents A brief introduction Part I The continued colonization of African Americans Introduction to Part I Chapter 1 Contemporary African-American insecurity Chapter 2 The building of incapacity: Race, poverty, subordination, and gaps in health services Chapter 3 The impact of slavery and Jim Crow on today’s African-American communities Chapter 4 The emerging and continued importance of racial stigma Obama’s burden as the other: stigma management Chapter 5 Gaps in government services and regulation: Maintaining incapacity and insecurity Education Housing Chapter 6 Insecurity on the streets and the criminal justice system Works cited Part II The systematic undoing of civil rights and federal supports for African Americans Introduction to Part II Chapter 7 The promise of Reconstruction Chapter 8 Jim Crow law and customs: A return to white hegemony Chapter 9 States’ rights as a form of resistance, black deaths, and freedom fighters in the South Chapter 10 Twentieth-century civil rights legislation: Expanding civil rights and protecting voting rights The Civil Rights Act of 1957 The Civil Rights Act of 1960 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Civil Rights Act of 1968 Chapter 11 The incubation of white populism Nixon redux, emerging white-based populism, losing ground for civil rights advocates Fair Housing Refining the coded language of racial superiority: the actor on his marks, complete with stereotypes School integration and white fear of falling Trump and Sessions get tough on crime by interfering with consent decrees to assist troubled police departments White nationalism and American institutions Works cited Part III The triumph of the white nationalists Introduction to Part III Chapter 12 The making of the American working class: A brief historical discussion Chapter 13 The emergence of white nationalism in the twentieth century The white nationalism of the dispossessed majority Perceived threats to the white majority Unassimilable minorities Fear of beiging Trump’s victory and the place of white nationalism in it White nationalists lead the charge for voter IDs Trumpism = Buchananism + Chaos Works cited Part IV Advancing democratic Americanism Introduction to Part IV Chapter 14 Ideas for diminishing white nationalism Chapter 15 Targeted interventions Protect voting rights by ending voter suppression and gerrymandering Reducing health disparities and undoing gaps in health services Reducing income and wealth inequality—both within the black population and in comparison with the white population Challenging educational disparities Chapter 16 Ending insecurity brought on by unacceptable living conditions Enhancing the urban environment: parks, recreation andthe return of street lighting to Detroit Improving housing stability and home life Chapter 17 Reforming criminal justice in the twenty-first century Preventing confrontation with the police and introducing fairness in prosecution, and sentencing Reversing the unintended consequences of the war on crime through sentence reform Remembering and building on the legacy of the Obama presidency The midterms Chapter 18 Considering the case for reparations Chapter 19 White nationalism trumped by democratic Americanism Revisiting white nationalism during Obama’s presidency Works cited Index This book examines the ongoing struggle for social justice by and for African Americans. Examining the persistent rolling back of civil and voting rights for this population and other minorities since the end of Reconstruction, the author discusses the continued colonization of African Americans and the rise of white nationalism before considering what can be done to create a democratic version of Americanism. With discussions on the possibilities that exist for eliminating health disparities, increasing income and reducing wealth inequality, enhancing the urban environment and housing stability, reforming criminal justice, and reconsidering the case for reparations for the descendants of slaves, the author considers whether white nationalism is a threat to Democratic Americanism and if the declining fortunes of working class Americans can be reversed by means of a "Marshall Plan" for the United States. A study of the sustained racial injustices of American society over the last century and a half and their possible remedies, A Nation Apart will appeal to all those with interests in race and ethnicity and questions of social justice. -- Back cover