Blacks in and Out of the Left

Name: Blacks in and Out of the Left
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ISBN: 9780674057685

ISBN-10: 0674057686

ISBN-13: 9780674057685

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael C. Dawson

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The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson investigates the causes and consequences of the decline of black radicalism as a force in American politics and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race sufficiently seriously as a historical force in reshaping American institutions, politics, and civil society.African Americans have been in the vanguard of progressive social movements throughout American history, but they have been written out of many histories of social liberalism. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the Black Power movement, Dawson examines successive…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/18/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface



Foundational Myths: Recovering and Reconciling Narratives of Resistance



Power to the People?



Who and What Killed the Left



Modern Myths: Constructing Visions of the Future


References


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index