Black-white conflict shifted from ending formal exclusion to redistributing resources

Evidence

I am concerned with the underlying meaning of race to white and black Americans (although, as in most of the literature in this area, disproportionate attention is given to white attitudes). This attempt to impose theoretical coherence on the complexities of racial attitudes and beliefs must begin, however, by recognizing a crucial shift in the character of black-white relations. The basic issues that define significant points of conflict and controversy in black-white relations have changed in many ways. Foremost among these changes has been a shift in focus from eliminating discrimination in access to public schools, facilities, employment, and the like, to a concern with mandatory school desegregation and the use of hiring goals or quotas; a shift from removing formal exclusionary barriers to implementing the measures needed to ensure full inclusion and participation; a shift, that is, from stuggles over acquiring basic civil rights to struggles over actually redistributing educational, economic, political, and social resources. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3315

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to symbolic racism / modern racism literature and to shifts from legal equality to substantive equity debates. — connects to: Antiracist victories across three eras were each defused by formal legal colorblindness — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 127