The crucial decade: The 1940s and beyond

Journal of American History

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1292-1299

  Gerstle, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 37849188728     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4485892     Document Type: Review

References (42)

1. Eric F. Goldman, The Crucial Decade: America, 1945-1955 (New York, 1956).
2. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (Princeton, 1989);
3. Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, "Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement," Journal of American History, 75 (Dec. 1988), 786-811;
4. Penny M. Von Eschen, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Ithaca, 1997);
5. John Higham, "The Cult of the 'American Consensus': Homogenizing Our History," Commentary, 27 (Jan. 1959), 93-100;
6. Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time (1976; New York, 1978), 67-98.
7. For a discussion of the Mexican government's policy toward its nationals in Los Angeles during an earlier period, see George J. Sánchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York, 1993).
8. Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Cambridge, Mass., 2001);
9. Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton, 2000);
10. Von Eschen, Race against Empire;
11. Brenda Gayle Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (Chapel Hill, 1996);
12. Jonathan Rosenberg, How Far the Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam (Princeton, 2006).
13. Thomas A. Guglielmo, "Fighting for Caucasian Rights: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and the Transnational Struggle for Civil Rights in World War II Texas? Journal of American History, 92 (March 2006), 1212.
14. African Americans and Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military, but in segregated units.
15. Guglielmo, "Fighting for Caucasian Rights," 1216-18.
16. See Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2001), 187-237.
17. See Zaragosa Vargas, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, 2005);
18. and David Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity (Berkeley, 1995).
19. See Gary Gerstle, "Race and Nation in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, 1880-1940," in Nationalism in the New World, ed. Don H. Doyle and Marco Antonio Pamplona (Athens, Ga., 2006), 272-303.
20. Gary Gerstle, "Race and Nation in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, 1880-1940," in Nationalism in the New World Ibid. (2006), 272-303.
21. Korstad and Lichtenstein, "Opportunities Found and Lost."
22. Anthony S. Chen, "'The Hitlerian Rule of Quotas': Racial Conservatism and the Politics of Fair Employment Legislation in New York State, 1941-1945," Journal of American History, 92 (March 2006), 1243;
23. Hugh Davis Graham, The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972 (New York, 1990), introduction.
24. On this phenomenon in Minnesota in the 1940s, see Jennifer A. Delton, Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (Minneapolis, 2002).
25. On racial conflict in New York in the 1960s, see Jerald E. Podair, The Strike That Charged New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis (New Haven, 2002).
26. Arnold R. Hirsch, "Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago, 1953-1966," Journal of American History, 82 (Sept. 1995), 522-50;
27. Thomas J. Sugrue, "Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North," ibid., 551-78.
28. See also Gary Gerstle, "Race and the Myth of the Liberal Consensus," Journal of American History ibid., 579-86.
29. See Fraser and Gerstle, eds., Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order.
30. Joshua B. Freeman, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II (New York, 2000);
31. Kevin Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (Ithaca, 1995);
32. Laura McEnaney, "Nightmares on Elm Street: Demobilizing in Chicago, 1945-1953," Journal of American History, 92 (March 2006), 1265-91.
33. McEnaney, "Nightmares on Elm Street," 1291.
34. Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990 (Chicago, 2000), xv.
35. McEnaney, "Nightmares on Elm Street," 1291. For an important state-centered history of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) that explores these questions about politics,
36. see Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, 2005), 179-261.
37. Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (New York, 1983);
38. Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton, 1996);
39. Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago, 2002);
40. Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton, 2003);
41. Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, 2005);
42. Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton, 2005).