Negro Politics

Negro Politics
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Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015009371587
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Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Negro Politics by : James Q. Wilson

New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South

New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9780820349848
ISBN-13 : 0820349844
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South by : Claudrena N. Harold

This study details how the development and maturation of New Negro politics and thought were shaped not only by New York–based intellectuals and revolutionary transformations in Europe, but also by people, ideas, and organizations rooted in the South. Claudrena N. Harold probes into critical events and developments below the Mason-Dixon Line, sharpening our understanding of how many black activists—along with particular segments of the white American Left—arrived at their views on the politics of race, nationhood, and the capitalist political economy. Focusing on Garveyites, A. Philip Randolph’s militant unionists, and black anti-imperialist protest groups, among others, Harold argues that the South was a largely overlooked “incubator of black protest activity” between World War I and the Great Depression. The activity she uncovers had implications beyond the region and adds complexity to a historical moment in which black southerners provided exciting organizational models of grassroots labor activism, assisted in the revitalization of black nationalist politics, engaged in robust intellectual arguments on the future of the South, and challenged the governance of historically black colleges. To uplift the race and by extension transform the world, New Negro southerners risked social isolation, ridicule, and even death. Their stories are reminders that black southerners played a crucial role not only in African Americans’ revolutionary quest for political empowerment, ontological clarity, and existential freedom but also in the global struggle to bring forth a more just and democratic world free from racial subjugation, dehumanizing labor practices, and colonial oppression.

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780807860144
ISBN-13 : 080786014X
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta by : Karen Ferguson

When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship. Black reformers, often working within federal agencies as social workers and administrators, saw the inclusion of African Americans in New Deal social welfare programs as a chance to prepare black Atlantans to take their rightful place in the political and social mainstream. They also worked to build a constituency they could mobilize for civil rights, in the process facilitating a shift from elite reform to the mass mobilization that marked the postwar black freedom struggle. Although these reformers' efforts were an essential prelude to civil rights activism, Ferguson argues that they also had lasting negative repercussions, embedded as they were in the politics of respectability. By attempting to impose bourgeois behavioral standards on the black community, elite reformers stratified it into those they determined deserving to participate in federal social welfare programs and those they consigned to remain at the margins of civic life.

The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901

The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781469610955
ISBN-13 : 1469610957
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901 by : Helen G. Edmonds

Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and municipal offices. This record shows that the ration of Afro-American voters was so low that black domination was neither a reality nor a threat.

Not in Our Lifetimes

Not in Our Lifetimes
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780226705347
ISBN-13 : 022670534X
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Not in Our Lifetimes by : Michael C. Dawson

Reflects on black politics in America and what it will take to to see equality.

The Boundaries of Blackness

The Boundaries of Blackness
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9780226190518
ISBN-13 : 022619051X
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Boundaries of Blackness by : Cathy J. Cohen

Last year, more African Americans were reported with AIDS than any other racial or ethnic group. And while African Americans make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population, they account for more than 55 percent of all newly diagnosed HIV infections. These alarming developments have caused reactions ranging from profound grief to extreme anger in African-American communities, yet the organized political reaction has remained remarkably restrained. The Boundaries of Blackness is the first full-scale exploration of the social, political, and cultural impact of AIDS on the African-American community. Informed by interviews with activists, ministers, public officials, and people with AIDS, Cathy Cohen unflinchingly brings to light how the epidemic fractured, rather than united, the black community. She traces how the disease separated blacks along different fault lines and analyzes the ensuing struggles and debates. More broadly, Cohen analyzes how other cross-cutting issues—of class, gender, and sexuality—challenge accepted ideas of who belongs in the community. Such issues, she predicts, will increasingly occupy the political agendas of black organizations and institutions and can lead to either greater inclusiveness or further divisiveness. The Boundaries of Blackness, by examining the response of a changing community to an issue laced with stigma, has much to teach us about oppression, resistance, and marginalization. It also offers valuable insight into how the politics of the African-American community—and other marginal groups—will evolve in the twenty-first century.

A Political Education

A Political Education
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9781469646596
ISBN-13 : 1469646595
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis A Political Education by : Elizabeth Todd-Breland

In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and Latinx communities to demand increased school resources. On the other side, the mayor, backed by the Obama administration, argued that only corporate-style education reform could set the struggling school system aright. The stark differences in positions resonated nationally, challenging the long-standing alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party. Elizabeth Todd-Breland recovers the hidden history underlying this battle. She tells the story of black education reformers' community-based strategies to improve education beginning during the 1960s, as support for desegregation transformed into community control, experimental schooling models that pre-dated charter schools, and black teachers' challenges to a newly assertive teachers' union. This book reveals how these strategies collided with the burgeoning neoliberal educational apparatus during the late twentieth century, laying bare ruptures and enduring tensions between the politics of black achievement, urban inequality, and U.S. democracy.

Knocking the Hustle

Knocking the Hustle
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Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 0692540792
ISBN-13 : 9780692540794
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Knocking the Hustle by : Lester Spence

Over the past several years scholars, activists, and analysts have begun to examine the growing divide between the wealthy and the rest of us, suggesting that the divide can be traced to the neoliberal turn. "I'm not a business man; I'm a business, man." Perhaps no better statement gets at the heart of this turn. Increasingly we're being forced to think of ourselves in entrepreneurial terms, forced to take more and more responsibility for developing our "human capital." Furthermore a range of institutions from churches to schools to entire cities have been remade, restructured to in order to perform like businesses. Finally, even political concepts like freedom, and democracy have been significantly altered. As a result we face higher levels of inequality than any other time over the last century. In Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, Lester K. Spence writes the first book length effort to chart the effects of this transformation on African American communities, in an attempt to revitalize the black political imagination. Rather than asking black men and women to "hustle harder" Spence criticizes the act of hustling itself as a tactic used to demobilize and disempower the communities most in need of empowerment.

The Politics of Black Joy

The Politics of Black Joy
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9780810144125
ISBN-13 : 0810144123
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Black Joy by : Lindsey Stewart

During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of “happy darkies.” In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart wades into these uncomfortable waters by analyzing Zora Neale Hurston’s uses of the concept of Black southern joy. Stewart develops Hurston’s contributions to political theory and philosophy of race by introducing the politics of joy as a refusal of neo-abolitionism, a political tradition that reduces southern Black life to tragedy or social death. To develop the politics of joy, Stewart draws upon Zora Neale Hurston’s essays, Beyoncé’s Lemonade, and figures across several disciplines including Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, Saidiya Hartman, Imani Perry, Eddie Glaude, and Audra Simpson. The politics of joy offers insights that are crucial for forming needed new paths in our current moment. For those interested in examining popular conceptions of Black political agency at the intersection of geography, gender, class, and Black spirituality, The Politics of Black Joy is essential reading.

The Politics of Black Citizenship

The Politics of Black Citizenship
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Publisher : Race in the Atlantic World, 17
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0820349372
ISBN-13 : 9780820349374
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Black Citizenship by : Andrew K. Diemer

Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of the Mid-Atlantic borderland, Diemer shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics as it exploited the ambiguities of citizenship and negotiated the complex national, state, and local politics in which that concept was determined.