The state contained black movements by both incorporating demands and repressing radicals.

Evidence

So the containment of the black movement by the U.S. state was initially achieved through acontradictory political strategy that combined incorporation of movement demands and violent repression directed against movement organizations and leaders. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 195

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Mirrors the Milgrom/Roberts material on institutions combining incentives with sanctions — here applied to state racial policy rather than trade.

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• US state selectively terrorized uncompromising Black radicals during the boom (similarity 0.81)
• Black insurgency reveals fundamental limits of US democracy (similarity 0.80)
• Black power emerged amid disillusionment with nonviolence and integration (similarity 0.78)