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Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intellectual history, Leah N. Gordon jumps into this and other big questions about race, power, and social justice. To answer these questions, __From Power to Prejudice__ examines American academia—both black and white—in the 1940s and ’50s. Gordon presents four competing visions of “the race problem” and documents how an individualistic paradigm, which presented white attitudes as the source of racial injustice, gained traction. A number of factors, Gordon shows, explain racial individualism’s postwar influence: individuals were easier to measure than social forces; psychology was well funded; studying political economy was difficult amid McCarthyism; and individualism was useful in legal attacks on segregation. Highlighting vigorous midcentury debate over the meanings of racial justice and equality, __From Power to Prejudice__ reveals how one particular vision of social justice won out among many contenders.

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Author

Leah N. Gordon

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226238449

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Science, Social Science

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14