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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. "Not One Was Willing To Go!": The Paradoxes of "Liberia's Offerings -- 2. "His Failure Will Be Theirs": Why the Black Elite Resisted Garveyism and Embraced Ethiopia -- 3. Protecting "Fertile Fields": The NAACP and Africa during the Cold War -- 4. "The Time for Freedom Has Come": Black Leadership in the Age of Decolonization -- 5. "We Are a Power Bloc": The Congressional Black Caucus and Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

This article demonstrates that there are affinities between Tocqueville's commentary on race and race relations in Democracy in America and the core assumptions of the critical race theory movement. Tocqueville shares with critical race theorists the view that white privilege was endemic in American culture and shapes both jurisprudence and outcomes in democratic politics. Moreover, Tocqueville presages the critical arguments about the negative externalities of white privilege and interest convergence. The presence of these ideas in Tocqueville's text undermines the consensus view in the political science literature that he failed to take racial inequality seriously in his analysis of America. Adapted from the source document.

On 3 October 1986, the 99th Congress—acting at the behest of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)—voted to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act (CAAA). The passage of this bill, which placed strict economic sanctions on the white supremacist regime in South Africa, was a watershed moment in American politics for two reasons. First, veto overrides in the foreign policy-making arena are an exceedingly rare form of legislative action. More importantly, this was the first time in American history that the members of a minority group were able to use their positions within the Congress to translate a parochial desire into foreign policy against the will of a sitting president.

Tillery reviews The Constraint of Race: The Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America.