Living in the future : utopianism and the long Civil Rights Movement / Victoria W. Wolcott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolcott, Victoria W., author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

Pacifism--United States.

Pacifism.

Utopias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Summary:

'Living in the Future' reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical-in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This is perhaps especially true when the utopian ideal in question is reforming and repairing the United States' bitter history of racial injustice. But as Victoria W. Wolcott provocatively argues, utopianism is actually the foundation of a rich and visionary worldview, one that specifically inspired the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement in ways that haven't yet been fully understood or appreciated.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations, Table, and Map

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Workers

Chapter 2 The Cooperators

Chapter 3 The Divinites

Chapter 4 The Fellowshippers

Chapter 5 The Pacifists

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 24, 2022).

ISBN:

9780226817279

022681727X

OCLC:

1294149681