The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831 to 1965

The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831 to 1965

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Author/Contributor(s): Riley, Russell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date: 05/07/1999
Binding: Paperback
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Focusing on the most explosive and enduring of equality movements--the struggle for social and economic parity by African Americans--Riley argues that the president's unwritten mandate as the designated protector of domestic social order is to suppress or moderate major social change. Only in extreme circumstances have presidents become advocates of serious reform.