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BL
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| Record Number
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586495
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GB9956526b415714
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| Main Entry
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Andrews, Marcellus,1956-
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| Title & Author
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The political economy of hope and fear : : capitalism and the Black condition in America /\ Marcellus Andrews
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| Page. NO
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vii, 224 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0814706797
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: 9780814706794
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index
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| Contents
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The color of prosperity: a few facts about Black economic well-being in America -- Race and the market -- Confusion and woe: race, capitalism, and the retreat from social justice in America -- The political economy of hope and fear
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| Abstract
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"The Political Economy of Hope and Fear fills an important intellectual gap in writing on race by developing a hard-nosed economic analysis of the links between competitive capitalism, racial hostility, and persistent racial inequality in post-Civil Rights America. Andrews speaks to the anger and frustration that African Americans feel in the face of the nation's abandonment of racial equality as a worthy objective by showing how the considerable difficulties that black Americans face are related to fundamental changes in the economic fortunes of the U.S." "The Political Economy of Hope and Fear is an economist's plea for unsentimental thinking on the matter of race to replace the mixture of liberal hand wringing and conservative mythmaking that passes for serious analysis about the nation's racial predicament."--Jacket
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| Subject
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African Americans-- Economic conditions
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Capitalism-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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United States, Economic conditions, 1945-
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United States, Economic policy
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| Dewey Classification
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330.973/09
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| LC Classification
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E185.8.A77 1999
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