Freedom Is Not Enough

by MacLean, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780674019096
• ISBN10: 0674019091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, MacLean chronicles the cultural and political advances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past fifty years.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Prologue: Jobs and Belonging	1	(12)
African Americans Shake the Old Order
The Rightness of Whiteness	13	(22)
The Fight Begins	35	(41)
Civil Rights at Work	76	(41)
Others Reposition Themselves
Women Challenge ``Jane Crow''	117	(38)
Are Mexican Americans ``Whites'' or ``People of Color''?	155	(30)
Jewish Americans Divide over Justice	185	(40)
Conservatives Shift from ``Massive Resistance'' to ``Color-Blindness''	225	(40)
The Challenge of the New Order
The Lonesomeness of Pioneering	265	(35)
The Struggle for Inclusion since the Reagan Era	300	(33)
Epilogue	333	(16)
Abbreviations in Notes	349	(8)
Notes	357	(80)
Acknowledgments	437	(6)
Index	443