Freedom Is Not Enough

The Opening of the American Workplace

Nancy MacLean

  • 2006 Gustavus Myers Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
  • 2007 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
  • 2007 Sharlin Memorial Award, Best Book in Social Science History

List of Illustrations

Prologue: Jobs and Belonging

Part I: African Americans Shake the Old Order

1. The Rightness of Whiteness

2. The Fight Begins

3. Civil Rights at Work

Part II: Others Reposition Themselves

4. Women Challenge "Jane Crow"

5. Are Mexican Americans "Whites" or "People of Color"?

6. Jewish Americans Divide over Justice

7. Conservatives Shift from "Massive Resistance" to "Color-Blindness"

Part III: The Challenge of the New Order

8. The Lonesomeness of Pioneering

9. The Struggle for Inclusion since the Reagan Era

Epilogue

Abbreviations in Notes

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Freedom Is Not Enough

Nancy MacLean is Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University.