Behind the mule : race and class in African-American politics
(2020)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Princeton University Press, 2020
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780691212982 (electronic bk.) MWT15052970, 0691212988 (electronic bk.) 15052970
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. Michael Dawson demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African- American politics. Why have African Americans remained so united in most of their political attitudes? To account for this phenomenon, Dawson develops a new theory of group interests that emphasizes perceptions of "linked fates" and black economic subordination
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