Book contents
- Dangerously Divided
- Dangerously Divided
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Fault Lines
- Part II The Consequences – Racial Inequality in Representation
- Part III Immigration’s Rising Impact on American Democracy
- Part IV Seeking Greater Equality
- 7 Democratic Party Control and Equality in Policy Responsiveness
- 8 Democratic Party Control and Minority Well-Being
- 9 Where Will We Go from Here?
- Notes
- Appendix
- References
- Index
9 - Where Will We Go from Here?
from Part IV - Seeking Greater Equality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 January 2020
- Dangerously Divided
- Dangerously Divided
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Fault Lines
- Part II The Consequences – Racial Inequality in Representation
- Part III Immigration’s Rising Impact on American Democracy
- Part IV Seeking Greater Equality
- 7 Democratic Party Control and Equality in Policy Responsiveness
- 8 Democratic Party Control and Minority Well-Being
- 9 Where Will We Go from Here?
- Notes
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
Over a decade and three presidential elections ago, America bore witness to a historic moment. The National Mall teemed with people, all longing to be part of a transition that had seemed unimaginable not so long before, both for a man and for a nation. The man was Barack Hussein Obama – the offspring of a Black father from Kenya and a White mother from Kansas whose family tree includes slave owners, among them, Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. The moment was the Presidential Inaugural – taking place on a cold, bright and breezy day 146 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and forty-six years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
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- Dangerously DividedHow Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics, pp. 246 - 273Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020