This edited collection describes and discusses the advances of African Americans since the 1960s in the context of political philosophy, specifically, utilitarian liberalism revisited as 1980s and 1990s conservatism. Identifying the basic assumptions of utilitarian liberalism with respect to governance and representation, it uses these constructs to explain public policy outcomes in African-American communities. The three core themes are: governance and the role of the state; African American responses and strategies for empowerment; and policy adjustments of the state. It is a major contribution to the discourse on a problem central to contemporary public policy debate: the appropriate role of government in the regulation of public and private behavior to achieve a balance between freedom and justice.
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“...much-needed critique of the liberal state's machinations, machinations that until now have been thought to be the result of manipultaion by interest groups or elites. What this collection does, and does very well, is demystify two notions that have dominated public policy literature until now: that the problems of blacks were somehow due to African American culture and that traditional social welfare programs will "solve" the persisting poverty plaguing the black community.”–Perspectives On Political Science
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MARILYN E. LASHLEY is an Assistant Professor in the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland at College Park.
MELANIE NJERI JACKSON is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University.
MELANIE NJERI JACKSON is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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A survey of the African American political landscape during the post-Civil Rights decades reveals a common and pervasive sense of the inadequacy of strategies pursued to remedy the legacy of racism responsible for enduring social, political, and economic inequalities that distinguish the lives of African Americans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
median relative incomes, white elected representatives, cultural politics notion, black urban regime, mortgage lending decision, affirmative policy, home purchase loans, urban dispossessed, denial rates, practiced democracy, cultural hypothesis, political alienation, white philanthropy, corporate philanthropy, majoritarian rules, black representatives, white respondents, median weekly earnings, policy access, white representatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York, United States, University of Chicago Press, Department of Commerce, Basic Books, Adam Smith, Atlanta Regional Commission, Great Society, Jim Crow, North Carolina, Oxford University Press, Joint Center, Atlanta Constitution, Bureau of Planning, Government Printing Office, San Francisco, World War, Boston Fed, Brookings Institution, Civil War, Free Press, Princeton University Press, The Black Scholar, Bureau of the Census New!
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A survey of the African American political landscape during the post-Civil Rights decades reveals a common and pervasive sense of the inadequacy of strategies pursued to remedy the legacy of racism responsible for enduring social, political, and economic inequalities that distinguish the lives of African Americans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
median relative incomes, white elected representatives, cultural politics notion, black urban regime, mortgage lending decision, affirmative policy, home purchase loans, urban dispossessed, denial rates, practiced democracy, cultural hypothesis, political alienation, white philanthropy, corporate philanthropy, majoritarian rules, black representatives, white respondents, median weekly earnings, policy access, white representatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York, United States, University of Chicago Press, Department of Commerce, Basic Books, Adam Smith, Atlanta Regional Commission, Great Society, Jim Crow, North Carolina, Oxford University Press, Joint Center, Atlanta Constitution, Bureau of Planning, Government Printing Office, San Francisco, World War, Boston Fed, Brookings Institution, Civil War, Free Press, Princeton University Press, The Black Scholar, Bureau of the Census New!
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