{"product_id":"the-political-economy-of-hope-marcellus-william-andrews-9780814706794","title":"The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America","description":"\u003cp\u003ePopular 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Political Economy of Hope and Fear\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Political Economy of Hope and Fear\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcellus William Andrews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814706797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814706794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.27w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/1999 pg. 1755\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2000 pg. 49","brand":"Marcellus William Andrews","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086914400511,"sku":"9780814706794","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aac26e16-d05b-455e-9147-be73d2a9b8cc.jpg?v=1769097293","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-political-economy-of-hope-marcellus-william-andrews-9780814706794","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}