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Black citizenship and authenticity in the civil rights movement / Randolph Hohle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hohle, Randolph, author.
- Series:
- Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
- Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and local struggles for racial equality, and prompted a white response to the civil rights movement that set the stage for the neoliberal turn in US policy. Randolph Hohle questions some of the most basic assumptions about the civil rights movement, including the importance of non-violence, and the movement's legacy on contemporary black politics. Non-violence was the effect of the movement's emphasis on
- Contents:
- Good black citizenship and personal ethics
- Mobilizing the black community: social ethics, social capital and the black family
- Civic ethics and embodied performances
- Black authenticity and an ethics of autonomy
- The transformation of SNCC and local activism
- Conclusion : Good white citizenship and the white response to the movement.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-73987-4
- 1-283-94278-X
- 0-203-56911-3
- 1-136-73980-7
- 9780203569115
- OCLC:
- 823719038
- Access Restriction:
- open access Unrestricted online access
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