Freedom Is Not Enough

by MacLean, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780674027497
• ISBN10: 0674027493
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows the centrality of economic inclusion to the black freedom movement, the feminist movement, and the Mexican American civil rights movement. Freedom Is Not Enough brings to life the workplace and community struggles that have irrevocably democratized the United States over the past fifty years, while shedding new light on the powerful forces limiting change. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Nancy Maclean is Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University

Table of Contents

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