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Blacks in and Out of the Left.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The W. E. B. du Bois LecturesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674074019
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blacks in and Out of the LeftDDC classification:
  • 323.1196/073
LOC classification:
  • E185
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Foundational Myths: Recovering and Reconciling Narratives of Resistance -- Chapter 2 - Power to the People? -- Chapter 3 - Who and What Killed the Left -- Chapter 4 - Modern Myths: Constructing Visions of the Future -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: The radical black left has largely disappeared from the struggle for equality and justice. Michael Dawson examines the causes and consequences, and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race seriously as a force in reshaping American institutions and civil society. Black politics needs to find its way back to its radical roots.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Foundational Myths: Recovering and Reconciling Narratives of Resistance -- Chapter 2 - Power to the People? -- Chapter 3 - Who and What Killed the Left -- Chapter 4 - Modern Myths: Constructing Visions of the Future -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The radical black left has largely disappeared from the struggle for equality and justice. Michael Dawson examines the causes and consequences, and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race seriously as a force in reshaping American institutions and civil society. Black politics needs to find its way back to its radical roots.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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