Introduction : race and American liberalism -- Anti-caste liberalism -- Darwinian liberalism -- Race and the emancipation of labor -- Inequality and white supremacy -- Postwar liberalism -- Race, class, and the civil rights movement -- The broken promise of liberal revolution -- The conservative movement -- Conclusion : the impasse of progressive liberalism
Summary
Traces the roots of the contemporary crisis of progressive liberalism into the nation's racial past. This book argues that the conservative claim that the American liberal tradition has been rooted in a conception of individual rights is inaccurate. It also shows that American liberalism has served both to support and oppose racial hierarchy
