America's Continuum of Racial Democracy and Injustice

FROM THE PLANTATION TO URBAN GHETTO

by Thomas P. Wallace


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 07/04/2020

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 462
ISBN : 9781728357683
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 462
ISBN : 9781728357706

About the Book

In 2019, of the 252 Republican members of Congress, only 3 were African American. Lincoln’s progressive Republicanism had been supplanted by the regressive 1950s Southern-styled Democratic Party ideology of white primacy. America’s initial morally flawed constitution permitted slavery to persist, catalyzing and sustaining hostile unresolvable ideological warfare, driven by slavery issues, the Civil War, a failed post-war Reconstruction effort, and a brutal Jim Crow suppression. And since the 1980s, politically contrived Republican race-neutral legislation and policies have disproportionally targeted minorities, resulting in discriminatory housing, voting, policing, and criminal justice outcomes. Over the centuries, excessive white self-serving social and economic individualism of privilege, religious ethno-cultural racism, and a destructive anti-progressive, anti-intellectual, and anti-scientific mentality has been ingrained within the nation’s DNA. This is America’s continuum of racial democracy and injustice.


About the Author

Thomas P. Wallace has served higher education for over three decades as a professor and academic administrator. His last position was President of Illinois State University.