Mid-century civil rights gains remain uncontrolled by decades of backlash.

Evidence

The all-too-brief Great Transformation, we argue, set in motion permanent political and cultural shifts that 40 years of racial reaction have been required to control. And those radical challenges have still not been controlled. They remain disruptive, transformative, explosive. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 10

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s standing interest in how movements’ gains get rolled back; mirrors the ‘Great Transformation/reaction’ arc seen in other historical case work.

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• Racial revolutions bring piecemeal gains that typically trigger new backlashes and subtler exclusions (similarity 0.83)
• Civil rights victories benefitted only middle-class blacks by 1967 (similarity 0.81)
• Civil rights victories secured legal gains that coexist with deepened material inequality (similarity 0.81)
• Civil rights successes left deeply rooted racial habits and material suffering intact (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-racist gains that cannot be reversed must instead be rearticulated by opponents. (similarity 0.80)
• Movement struggles over race’s social meaning, not just its material effects, drive its transformation. (similarity 0.80)
• Racial reform requires state response to movements that arise amid institutional decay (similarity 0.79)
• Post-civil-rights reform failure forced ethnicity theory toward blaming people of color (similarity 0.79)
• Postwar U.S. racial history reversed from despotism transformation to containment (similarity 0.79)
• US civil rights expanded a diverse middle class while imprisonment of minorities ballooned (similarity 0.78)
• Ideological rearticulation outperformed repression in defusing the civil rights movement. (similarity 0.78)
• Post-1970 radical movements of color traced directly to civil rights breakdown (similarity 0.78)
• Ideological rearticulation was more effective than repression at containing the radical black movement. (similarity 0.78)
• Black insurgency reveals fundamental limits of US democracy (similarity 0.78)