World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108427630)

World War II played an important role in the trajectory of race and American political development, but the War's effects were much more complex than many assume. Steven White offers an extensive analysis of rarely utilized survey data and archival evidence to assess white racial attitudes and the executive branch response to civil rights advocacy. He finds that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the white mass public's racial policy attitudes largely did not liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany. In this context, advocates turned their attention to the possibility of unilateral action by the president, emphasizing a wartime civil rights agenda focused on discrimination in the defense industry and segregation in the military. This book offers a reinterpretation of this critical period in American political development, as well as implications for the theoretical relationship between war and the inclusion of marginalized groups in democratic societies.

Author: Steven White
ISBN-10: 1108427634
ISBN-13: 9781108427630
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2019
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2020