{"product_id":"sharing-the-prize-the-economics-of-the-civil-rights-revolution-in-the-american-south-9780674980402","title":"Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History Association\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe civil rights movement was also a struggle for economic justice, one that until now has not had its own history. \u003ci\u003eSharing the Prize\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the significant material gains black southerners made--in improved job opportunities, quality of education, and health care--from the 1960s to the 1970s and beyond. Because black advances did not come at the expense of southern whites, Gavin Wright argues, the civil rights struggle was that rarest of social revolutions: one that benefits both sides. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wright argues that government action spurred by the civil-rights movement corrected a misfiring market, generating large economic gains that private companies had been unable to seize on their own.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Written...with the care and imagination [Wright] displayed in his superb work on slavery and the southern economy since the Civil War, this excellent economic history offers the best empirical account to date of the effects the civil rights revolution had on southern labor markets, schools, and other important institutions...With much of the nation persuaded that a post-racial age has begun, Wright's analytical history...takes on fresh urgency.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Ira Katznelson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWright, Gavin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University.","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460690972946,"sku":"9780674980402","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a8a5569b-3b1f-456c-96d1-5119110d6e99.jpg?v=1730045279","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sharing-the-prize-the-economics-of-the-civil-rights-revolution-in-the-american-south-9780674980402","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}