The debate on black civil rights in America / Kevern Verney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verney, Kevern, 1960-

Series:

Issues in historiography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--United States--History.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History.

Civil rights movements.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 196 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.

Summary:

Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It provides a critical historiographical review of the very latest thinking and explains how and why research and discourse have evolved in the ways that they have.

Individual chapters focus on particular periods in African American history, from the spread of racial segregation in the 1890s, through to the post-war Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The concluding chapters address the modern day black experience and images of African Americans in popular culture.

The central debates on key events and individuals in African American history are assessed, the latter category including all major race leaders of the last hundred years, from Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey through to Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. A recurring theme explored in the book is the extent to which the ideas of historians have been shaped not just by scholarly research but also by their personal life experiences and the turbulent developments in US race relations over the course of the twentieth century.

A critical appraisal of both existing scholarship and the changing philosophy of the historical profession, this work is invaluable to scholars, students and general readers alike.

Contents:

1 Segregation and accommodation, 1895-1915 9

2 The Great Migration and the 'New Negro', 1915-1930 38

3 The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930-1945 61

4 The post-war Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1965 87

5 Malcolm X and Black Power, 1960-1980 115

6 The new conservatism: black civil rights since 1980 134

7 African Americans and US popular culture since 1895 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-186) and index.

ISBN:

071906760X

0719067618

OCLC:

62307822

Publisher Number:

9780719067600

9780719067617