Black power and the American myth / C.T. Vivian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vivian, C. T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

50th anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2020]

Summary:

C. T. Vivian asserts that the civil rights movement failed because it was built on certain myths about America: - the myth that Americans will do what is right as soon as they know what is right. - the myth that legislation leads to justice. - the myth that America is an open society where any minority group can advance. - the myth that an ethic of love forms the core of the American conscience.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Part I: Background to Struggle

1. The Moral Confrontation

Part II: Freedom Road

2. Strategic Goals

3. The Out Class

4. The Intercaste

5. Program for the Nation

6. A New Method

7. All the Way Home

Part III: The Old Assumptions

8. Prologue to the Past

9. The New Separatism

10. The Mask and the Man

11. The System

12. At the Bottom of the Melting Pot

13. Democracy in America

14. Christian Love and Christian Hate

15. Man and Machine

16. The People's Choice

17. Conformity and Struggle

Part IV: Prologue to the Future

18. Failure and Reformulation

Biographical Note

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5064-7899-9

OCLC:

1273307641