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).

"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 that should engage student audiences and the reading public." (Journal of American History, 1 March 2011)

• Acknowledgments viIntroduction 11 The Never Ending Story: American Racism from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement 72 From the Freedom Movement to Free Markets: Racializing the War on Poverty and Colorblinding Jim Crow 303 A System without Signs: The Invisible Racism of the Post-Civil Rights Era 534 Fighting Jim Crow’s Shadow: Struggles for Racial Equality after 1965 765 To See or Not to See: Debates over Affirmative Action 1006 Is This America? Electoral Politics after the Voting Rights Act 1247 Fir$t Cla$$ Citizen$hip: Struggles for Economic Justice 1478 All Around the World: The Freedom Struggle in a Global Context 169Notes 194Index 230