TY - BOOK AU - Higginbotham,F.Michael TI - Ghosts of Jim Crow: ending racism in post-racial America SN - 9780814737477 (cl : alk. paper) AV - 002 E 185.61 H635g 2013 U1 - 305.896/073 PY - 2013///] CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - History KW - Segregation KW - Afroamericanos KW - Derechos civiles KW - Historia KW - Derechos de los negros KW - Estados Unidos KW - Racismo KW - Segregación KW - United States KW - Race relations KW - Racism KW - Relaciones raciales N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Creating the paradigm: racial hierarchy -- Constructing racial categories from the nation's founding to the Civil War -- Maintaining white dominance during Reconstruction -- Preventing black excellence between Plessy and Brown -- Sustaining the paradigm: white isolation and black separation and subordination -- Maintaining racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods from Brown to the 21st century -- Victimizing blacks in the 21st century -- Ending the paradigm: building a post-racial America -- Black empowerment and self-help -- Integration and equality ER -