ISBN:
9781503630345
,
9781503630925
Language:
English
Pages:
285 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Post 45
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Darda, Joseph Strange career of racial liberalism
DDC:
305.800973/0904
Keywords:
Anti-racism History 20th century
;
Liberalism History 20th century
;
Racism History 20th century
;
United States Race relations 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
Introduction : the bend of the arc -- Antiracism as war -- Antiracism as civil rights -- Antiracism as education -- Antiracism as integration -- Antiracism as color blindness -- Epilogue : time now.
Abstract:
"How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change. What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock"--
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