Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama / Matthew C. Whitaker.
2013
E185.6 .W57 2013eb
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Title
Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama / Matthew C. Whitaker.
Author
Whitaker, Matthew C.
ISBN
9780803249585 (electronic book)
9780803246935
9780803249646
9780803246935
9780803249646
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 393 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
E185.6 .W57 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.0496073
Summary
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
"Make Way for Democracy," 1939-1954
"Let Your Motto Be Resistance," 1954-1961
"Deep Rumbling of Discontent," 1961-1968
"So Let It Be Done," 1968-1980
"To the Break of Dawn," 1980-2000
"The Audacity of Hope," 2000-2008.
"Let Your Motto Be Resistance," 1954-1961
"Deep Rumbling of Discontent," 1961-1968
"So Let It Be Done," 1968-1980
"To the Break of Dawn," 1980-2000
"The Audacity of Hope," 2000-2008.