The New Electoral Politics of Race

by Matthew J. Streb

Examines the disappearance of extreme prejudice and racial rhetoric in modern political campaigns and the alternate ways that race continues to be an abiding issue in the electoral process

Historically, race has always been at the heart of American politics, and southern politics more specifically. Southern elections revolved almost entirely around racial issues during the 1950s and 1960s as debates raged over integration of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817311491
• ISBN13: 9780817311490
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 8.8"