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American Untouchables: America & the Racial Contract: A Historical Perspective on Race-Based Politics

American Untouchables: America & the Racial Contract: A Historical Perspective on Race-Based Politics

Smith, Andre

Paperback

Series: Critical Perspectives on Social Science

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1622732995
ISBN13: 9781622732999
Publisher: Vernon Pr
Published: Aug 3 2017
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The issue of race is often a scab Americans choose to ignore. However social science has a responsibility and an obligation to examine not simply the amenable subjects but also the controversial. This work, in a word, is controversial. Thomas Franks (2004) argued that cultural differences led white Kansans to abandon the Democratic Party for the Republican Party during the 1980s. He specifically argued that abortion was the unifying issue in this ideological migration. Simultaneously, future President Ronald Reagan opened his campaign for the presidency in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the sight of the massacre of four young civil rights activists over a decade earlier. Race has and is a factor in the American experience; Franks' premise is simply that the absence of the concentration of African Americans in the Kansas area negated the influence of the black threat hypothesis on the observed ideological switch of white Kansans. This work argues that Franks' premise fails to incorporate the over arching ideological switch of white voter migration to the Republican party that was occurring during the same period, and that Reagan's speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi was an overt cue that he was rejecting the civil rights consensus for an historically established race-based social contract that positioned people of color outside the traditional bounds of the social contract.

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