Arnold BirenbaumA Nation Apart
The African-American Experience and White Nationalism
Arnold Birenbaum is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA. He is the co-author of Norms and Human Behavior and the co-editor of Social Problems: Private Troubles and Public Issues and People in Places: The Sociology of the Familiar.
Introduction
Part I: The Continued Colonization of African Americans
Introduction
1. Contemporary African-American Insecurity
2. The Building of Incapacity: Race, Poverty, Subordination and Gaps in
Health Services
3. The Impact of Slavery and Jim Crow on Today's African-American
Communities
4. The Emerging and Continued Importance of Racial Stigma
5. Gaps in Government Services and Regulations: Maintaining Incapacity and
Insecurity
6. Insecurity on the Streets and the Illegitimacy of the Criminal Justice
System
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Part II: The Systematic Undoing of Civil Rights and Federal Supports for
African Americans
Introduction
7. The Promise of Reconstruction
8. Jim Crow Law and Customs: A Return to White Hegemony
9. States' Rights as a Form of Resistance, Black Deaths, and Freedom
Fighters in the South
10. Twentieth Century Civil Rights Legislation: Expanding Civil Rights and
Protecting Voting Rights
11. The Incubation of White Populism
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Part III: The Triumph of the White Nationalists
Introduction
12. The Making of the American Working Class: A Brief Historical Discussion
13. The Emergence of White Nationalism in the Twentieth Century
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Part IV: Advancing Democratic Americanism
Introduction
14. Ideas for Diminishing White Nationalism
15. Targeted Interventions
16. Ending Insecurity Brought on by Unacceptable Living Conditions
17. Reforming Criminal Justice in the Twenty-First Century
18. Considering the Case for Reparations
19. White Nationalism Trumped by Democratic Americanism
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