• DOI:10.3167/015597705780886194
Corpus ID: 144066709

Second-Hand Dreams

@article{Prashad2005SecondHandD,
  title={Second-Hand Dreams},
  author={V. Prashad},
  journal={Social Analysis},
  year={2005},
  volume={49},
  pages={191-198}
}

• V. Prashad
• Published 2005
• Sociology
• Social Analysis

The tragedy of the age of integration (1954 onward) in the United States is that it overlapped with the demise of the social-wage state and with the rise of the neo-liberal social order. Whereas the civil rights movement fought for the wid est provision of dignity, the guardians of the American state have reduced this vision to one concession: that all people will have certain rights vested in the state. When the US Congress passed the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, it ended legal… Expand

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