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Race, Labor Unions, and American Political Development in the 20th Century
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actively discussed on the national agenda or the House and Senate floors. In fact, often it is in
those moments when there is an absence of discourse about race that it is most consequential.
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Further, as Rogers Smith has well argued, by ignoring race’s importance as a real and enduring
ideology in America, as well as the way that it is embedded in our institutions and political
development, scholars have ignored the far more limited position and success of American
liberalism.
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In this light, the New Deal, and the capacity of progressives within it, appears to
have been far over-estimated in its successful nature and scope. Recognized not as a fulfillment
of American liberalism but as merely a half-step, the history and legacy of the New Deal suggests
that the struggle to get there will be much longer and much more difficult.
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See Paul Frymer, Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1999).
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Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
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actively discussed on the national agenda or the House and Senate floors. In fact, often it is in
those moments when there is an absence of discourse about race that it is most consequential.
125
Further, as Rogers Smith has well argued, by ignoring race’s importance as a real and enduring
ideology in America, as well as the way that it is embedded in our institutions and political
development, scholars have ignored the far more limited position and success of American
liberalism.
126
In this light, the New Deal, and the capacity of progressives within it, appears to
have been far over-estimated in its successful nature and scope. Recognized not as a fulfillment
of American liberalism but as merely a half-step, the history and legacy of the New Deal suggests
that the struggle to get there will be much longer and much more difficult.
125
See Paul Frymer, Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1999).
126
Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
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