TY - BOOK ID - 80731238 TI - Race and American political development AU - Lowndes, Joseph E AU - Novkov, Julie AU - Warren, Dorian PY - 2008 SN - 1283841924 113608634X 0203626028 9781136086342 9780203626023 9781136086427 1136086420 9781136086502 1136086501 9780415961516 0415961513 9780415961530 041596153X PB - New York, NY Routledge DB - UniCat KW - United States KW - History. KW - Race relations KW - Political aspects. KW - Politics and government. KW - Government KW - History, Political KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80731238 AB - Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens' political identities. But because of the nature of race-its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power-we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively.Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make ER -