African Americans and the New Policy Consensus: Retreat of the Liberal State?

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Tables and Figures vii
• Foreword xi
• Introduction 1
• Part I Theory and Concepts 5
• 1 The Liberal State: What Retreat? An Examination of Philosophical Ambivalence and Continuity In Perspectives and Treatment Of African Americans in The U.S. Political System 7
• References 21
• 2: Mythologies of Cultural Politics and the Discrete Charm Of the Black Petite Bourgeoisie 25
• 3 Culture as Human Capital: Methodological And Policy Implications 35
• References 48
• Part Ii African American Empowerment Strategies And Responses 51
• 4 Reclaiming the State: Representative Government And Public Policy Access 53
• Notes 72
• Notes 74
• 5: Who Represents the People? African Americans, Public Policy, And Political Alienation During The Reagan-Bush Years 77
• 6: Government Retreat, The Dispossessed, and the Politics Of African American Self-Reliant Development in the Age of Reaganism 99
• 7 We Have Come This Far by Our Own Hands: A Tradition of African American Self-Help and Philanthropy and The Growth of Corporate Philanthropic Giving to African Americans1 121
• References 153
• Part Iii The State Reinvents Itself 155
• 8 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending Markets as Rational Economic Behavior: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy1 157
• References 178
• Notes 179
• 9 Black Mecca Reconsidered: An Analysis of Atlanta's Post-Civil Rights Political Economy 195
• 10 The Impact of Affirmative Policy On Correcting the Market Failures Of Racial Discrimination: Are African Americans Better Off? 201
• References 234
• Index 235
• About the Editors and Contributors 243

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