Invisible Enemy

Greta de Jong is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on the connections between race and class and the ways that African Americans have fought for economic as well as political rights from the end of slavery through the twenty-first century. She is the author of A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900--1970 (2002).

• Acknowledgments. Introduction.1. The Never Ending Story: American Racism from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement.2. From the Freedom Movement to Free Markets: Racializing the War on Poverty and Colorblinding Jim Crow.3. A System without Signs: The Invisible Racism of the Post-Civil Rights Era.4. Fighting Jim Crow’s Shadow: Struggles for Racial Equality after 1965.5. To See or Not to See: Debates over Affirmative Action.6. Is This America? Electoral Politics after the Voting Rights Act.7 Fir$st Cla$$ Citizen$hip: Struggles for Economic Justice.8. All Around the World: The Freedom Struggle in a Global Context.Notes.Index.

"The book is an important contribution in understanding a still largely overlooked period of contemporary history. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." (Choice , 1 April 2011) "Even so, the thematic unity and clear elucidation of the nature and persistence of systemic racism in American society and of white Americans ' blindness to it makes the book a valuable study thatshould engage student audiences and the reading public." (Journal of American History, 1 March 2011)