TY - BOOK ID - 78641264 TI - Managing Inequality PY - 2014 SN - 1479803634 1479893552 9781479803637 9781479893553 9781479880096 1479880094 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - HISTORY / General. KW - Equality KW - Liberalism KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Liberal egalitarianism KW - Liberty KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - Egalitarianism KW - Inequality KW - Social equality KW - Social inequality KW - Sociology KW - Democracy KW - Government policy KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Civil rights KW - Detroit (Mich.) KW - Detroit KW - Diṭroiṭ (Mich.) KW - Deṭroyṭ (Mich.) KW - Town of Detroit (Mich.) KW - City of Detroit (Mich.) KW - Economic conditions KW - Politics and government KW - Race relations KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641264 AB - In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitalism, and the now vanquished southern system, which had been built on slavery. But this interest in legal race neutrality should not be mistaken for an effort to integrate northern African Americans into the state or society on an equal footing with whites. During the Great Migration, which brought tens of thousands of African Americans into Northern cities after World War I, white northern leaders faced new challenges from both white and African American activists and were pushed to manage race relations in a more formalized and proactive manner. The result was northern racial liberalism: the idea that all Americans, regardless of race, should be politically equal, but that the state cannot and indeed should not enforce racial equality by interfering with existing social or economic relations. In Managing Inequality, Karen R. Miller examines the formulation, uses, and growing political importance of northern racial liberalism in Detroit between the two World Wars. Miller argues that racial inequality was built into the liberal state at its inception, rather than produced by antagonists of liberalism. Managing Inequality shows that our current racial system—where race neutral language coincides with extreme racial inequalities that appear natural rather than political—has a history that is deeply embedded in contemporary governmental systems and political economies.In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitalism, and the now vanquished southern system, which had been built on slavery. But this interest in legal race neutrality should not be mistaken for an effort to integrate northern African Americans into the state or society on an equal footing with whites. During the Great Migration, which brought tens of thousands of African Americans into Northern cities after World War I, white northern leaders faced new challenges from both white and African American activists and were pushed to manage race relations in a more formalized and proactive manner. The result was northern racial liberalism: the idea that all Americans, regardless of race, should be politically equal, but that the state cannot and indeed should not enforce racial equality by interfering with existing social or economic relations. In Managing Inequality, Karen R. Miller examines the formulation, uses, and growing political importance of northern racial liberalism in Detroit between the two World Wars. Miller argues that racial inequality was built into the liberal state at its inception, rather than produced by antagonists of liberalism. Managing Inequality shows that our current racial system—where race neutral language coincides with extreme racial inequalities that appear natural rather than political—has a history that is deeply embedded in contemporary governmental systems and political economies. ER -