Winning While Losing: Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama

Contents

CONTENTS Preface ix Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White Introduction. The Paradox of Success: Civil Rights and the Presidency in a New Era 1 Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White 1. Zigs and Zags: Richard Nixon and the New Politics of Race 26 John D. Skrentny 2. African American Civil Rights and Conservative Mobilization in the Jimmy Carter Years 55 Joseph Crespino and Asher Smith 3. Ronald Reagan and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: Battles Won and Wars Lost 82 Mary Frances Berry 4. Rebuilding Institutions and Redefining Issues: The Reagan Justice Department and the Reconstruction of Civil Rights 121 Richard L. Pacelle Jr. 5. Civil Rights Policymaking in the Clinton Administration: In Reagan’s Shadow 153 Robert C. Smith 6. Old Vinegar in a New Bottle: Vote Denial in the 2000 Presidential Election and Beyond 181 Charles L. Zelden 7. George W. Bush, Compassionate Conservatism, and the Limits of “Racial Realism” 216 Steven F. Lawson 8. Civil Rights and the First Black President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Racial Equality 261 Ronald W. Walters with Robert C. Smith Conclusion: More Equal and Less Equal since the 1970s 275 Thomas Borstelmann List of Contributors 287 ...