World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy. By White, Steven. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 216 p. $99.99 cloth

To explore the racial liberalization hypothesis, White presents a very interesting set of surveys from the 1940s asking questions about anti-Black prejudice (p. 44), support for antilynching and anti-poll tax legislation (pp. 49–56), and military segregation (p. 58). [...]they treat “progress toward...

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Published in:Perspectives on Politics 2020, Vol.18 (4), p.1232-1233
Main Author: Peck, Justin
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Advocacy
African Americans
Archival research
Attitudes
Civil rights
Equal rights
Equality
Hypotheses
Ideology
Legislation
Liberalization
Military mobilization
Nazi groups
Political activism
Politics
Poll taxes
Prejudice
Presidents
Protest movements
Public opinion
Racial inequality
Segregation
Taxation
World War II
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Summary:To explore the racial liberalization hypothesis, White presents a very interesting set of surveys from the 1940s asking questions about anti-Black prejudice (p. 44), support for antilynching and anti-poll tax legislation (pp. 49–56), and military segregation (p. 58). [...]they treat “progress toward greater (never yet full) racial equality” as an outcome produced by the concurrence of three factors: the economic and military mobilization of African Americans, ideology (White’s target), and the threat of destabilizing political protest (pp. 3–4). Through careful archival research, White reconstructs the demands made of these presidents by civil rights activists, as well as the pressures they faced to maintain the status quo.
ISSN:1537-5927
1541-0986
DOI:10.1017/S1537592720002534