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By Daniel Martinez HoSang

ISBN-10: 0520266641

ISBN-13: 9780520266643

ISBN-10: 0520266668

ISBN-13: 9780520266667

This booklet appears to be like past the headlines to discover the arguable background of California's poll measures during the last fifty years. because the remainder of the U.S. watched, California electorate banned public providers for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative motion courses, and outlawed bilingual schooling, between different measures. Why did a kingdom with a liberal political tradition, an more and more assorted population, and a well-organized civil rights management roll again civil rights and anti-discrimination profits? Daniel Martinez HoSang reveals that, opposite to well known notion, this phenomenon doesn't characterize a brand new wave of "color-blind" regulations, neither is a triumph of racial conservatism. as a substitute, in a ebook that is going past the conservative-liberal divide, HoSang uncovers extraordinary connections among the perfect and left that demonstrate how racial inequality has persisted. Arguing that every of those measures used to be a proposition in regards to the that means of race and racism, his deft, convincing research eventually recasts our knowing of the construction of racial id, inequality, and tool within the postwar era.

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