“Without Regard to Race”: Critical Ideational Development in Modern American Politics

Many scholars note that racial policy issues now focus on color-blind versus race-conscious approaches to racial inequalities, but they have not adequately explained how this development occurred or its consequences. Using work theorizing the role of ideas in politics, this article argues that these...

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Alliances
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Coalitions
Color vision defects
Conservatism
Conservatives
Electoral College
Ethnicity
Gridlock (Politics)
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Inequality
Intellectuals
Interethnic relations
Liberalism
Polarization
Policy Analysis
Political Campaigns
Political parties
Politics
Racial differences
Racial inequality
Racial integration
Racial policies
Racial segregation
Republican parties
Revolutions
Social policy
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