@article{1479591,
      recid = {1479591},
      author = {Higginbotham, F. Michael, },
      title = {Ghosts of Jim Crow : Ending Racism in Post-Racial America  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {A provocative, and timely, solution for ridding America of  the traces of Jim Crow policies to create a truly  post-racial landscapeWhen America inaugurated its first  African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the  country had finally become a "post-racial" society. Was  this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation  nearly severed in half by slavery, and whose racial fault  lines are arguably among its most enduring traits, would at  last move beyond race with the election of Barack Hussein  Obama?In Ghosts of Jim Crow, F. Michael Higginbotham  convincingly argues that America remains far away from that  imagined utopia. Indeed, the shadows of Jim Crow era laws  and attitudes continue to perpetuate insidious, systemic  prejudice and racism in the 21st century. Higginbotham's  extensive research demonstrates how laws and actions have  been used to maintain a racial paradigm of hierarchy and  separation-both historically, in the era of lynch mobs and  segregation, and today-legally, economically, educationally  and socially. Using history as a roadmap, Higginbotham  arrives at a provocative solution for ridding the nation of  Jim Crow's ghost, suggesting that legal and political  reform can successfully create a post-racial America, but  only if it inspires whites and blacks to significantly  alter behaviors and attitudes of race-based superiority and  victimization. He argues that America will never achieve  its full potential unless it truly enters a post-racial  era, and believes that time is of the essence as  competition increases globally.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479591},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814724460.001.0001},
}