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This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures. Why did a state with a liberal political culture, an increasingly diverse populace, and a well-organized civil rights leadership roll back civil rights and anti-discrimination gains? Daniel Martinez HoSang finds that, contrary to popular perception, this phenomenon does not represent a new wave of 'color-blind' policies, nor is a triumph of racial conservatism. Instead, in a book that goes beyond the conservative-liberal divide, HoSang uncovers surprising connections between the right and left that reveal how racial inequality has endured. Arguing that each of these measures was a proposition about the meaning of race and racism, his deft, convincing analysis ultimately recasts our understanding of the production of racial identity, inequality, and power in the postwar era.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Racial Propositions
• Subtitle: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California
• Author: Daniel Martinez HoSang
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• EAN: 9780520266667
• ISBN: 0520266668
• ID: 04617983
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 540 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 153 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. October 2010

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