Course Description

Instructor: David Slavin, PhD

The “long� New Deal of the FDR and Truman administrations--seen as an era of radical reform--actually reconfigured racial inequality on a national scale. Congress, dominated by the Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic majority, insured that its panoply of programs and policies preserved the South’s Jim Crow system and expanded its scope to the rest of the U.S. The labor movement, suburbanization-- recent history has been shaped by this inherent contradiction of racial inequality embedded in American liberal, progressive politics. Recommended: Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (Katznelson).