@article{710526,
      recid = {710526},
      author = {Whitaker, Matthew C.},
      title = {Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to  Barack Obama /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 393 pages) :},
      abstract = {"A concise, engaging, and provocative history of African  Americans since World War II, Peace Be Still is also  nothing less than an alternate history of the United States  in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organizing  this history around culture, politics, and resistance,  Matthew C. Whitaker takes us from World War II as a  galvanizing force for African American activism and the  modern civil rights movement to the culmination of  generations of struggle in the election of Barack Obama.  From the promise of the post-World War II era to the black  power movement of the 1960s, the economic and political  struggles of the 1970s, and the major ideological  realignment of political culture during the 1980s, 1990s,  and early 2000s, this book chronicles a people fighting  oppression while fashioning a dynamic culture of artistic  and religious expression along with a program of  educational and professional advancement. A resurgence of  rigid conservative right-wing policies, the politics of  poverty, racial profiling, and police brutality are ongoing  counterpoints to African Americans rising to political  prominence and securing positions once denied them. A  history of African Americans for a new generation, Peace Be  Still demonstrates how dramatically African American  history illuminates the promise, conflicts, contradictions,  hopes, and victories that all Americans share."--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/710526},
}