The South's New Racial Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History [Paperback]

The Souths New Racial Politics presents an original thesis about how blacks and whites in todays South engage in a politics that is qualitatively different from the past. Glen Browderas practitioner and scholarargues that politicians of the two races now practice an open, sophisticated, biracial game that, arguably, means progress; but it also can bring out old-fashioned, cynical, and racist Southern ways. The lesson to be learned from this interpretative analysis is that the Southern political system, while still constrained by racial problems, is more functional than ever before. Southerners perhaps can now move forward in dealing with their legacy of hard history. A former politician at the state and national levels, Browder (emeritus American democracy, Jacksonville State U. Alabama) offers his personal perspective on what he characterizes as ironic and un-visionary accommodations that both blacks and whites have embraced in the 21st century. He describes the race game of southern political history, the rise and fall of southern democracy, a new racial system for the 21st century, and hard history and contemporary southern politics. Book News
Dr. Glen Browders credentials in Alabama politics are as impressive as his unique new work The Souths New Racial Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History. The former United States congressman gives a firsthand account of the Souths most enduring and troubling issue and offers an original thesis First Draft Online
[Browder] claims an insider's perspective on the types of compromises that happen behind closed doors in Southern statehouses. [He] traces the history of racial politics from the time preceding the civil rights era when one-party white supremacy was a foregone conclusion. Staff writer, Roll Call
[Browders] insights as a political scientist and an elected official are worth the readers effort. Michael Thomason, Mobile Press-Register
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