This volume explores how the study of race can transform our understandings of political development and how studying political development can inform our understandings of race and racialization.

1. Race and American Political Development Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov and Dorian Warren 2. Race and the Dual State in Antebellum America Richard Young and Jeffrey Meiser 3. Charleston, the Vesey Conspiracy, and the Development of the Police Power Kathleen Sullivan 4. Racial Orders in American Political Development Desmond King and Rogers Smith 5. Hierarchy and Hybridity: The Internal Poscolonialism of Mid-Nineteenth Century American Exceptionalism Kevin Bruyneel 6. Reconstruction, Race, and Revolution Pamela Brandwein 7. Jim Crow Reform and the Democratization of the South Kimberley Johnson 8. Race's Reality: The NAACP Confronts Racism and Inequality in the Labor Movement, 1940-1965 Paul Frymer 9. Legacies of Slavery?: Race and Historical Causation in American Political Development Robert Lieberman 10. The Origins of the Carceral Crisis: Racial Order as 'Law and Order' Naomi Murakawa 11. The Modern Presidency, Social Movements, and the Administrative State: Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Movement Sidney Milkis 12. The Triumph of Racial Liberalism, the Demise of Racial Justice Daniel Martinez-HoSang 13. Fractured Believers: Race and Religion as Intersectional Aspects of United States Political Development Nancy Wadsworth