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17%OFFMichael C. Dawson - Blacks In and Out of the Left - 9780674057685 - V9780674057685
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Blacks In and Out of the Left

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Description for Blacks In and Out of the Left Hardback. The radical black left has largely disappeared from the struggle for equality and justice. Michael Dawson examines the causes and consequences, and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race seriously as a force in reshaping American institutions and civil society. Black politics needs to find its way back to its radical roots. Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJK; JFSL3; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 212 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson investigates the causes and consequences of the decline of black radicalism as a force in American politics and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race sufficiently seriously as a historical force in reshaping American institutions, politics, and civil society. African Americans have been in the vanguard of progressive social movements throughout American history, but they have been written out of many histories of social liberalism. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s, as well ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
426g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674057685
SKU
V9780674057685
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About Michael C. Dawson
Michael C. Dawson is John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago.

Reviews for Blacks In and Out of the Left
Dawson is at his finest in exposing how many historians of the U.S. left have erased the black presence within American radicalism. Parallel to this 'whitewashing, ' and perhaps a more nefarious form of political amnesia, has been the effort by some white scholars to blame the current fragmentation of the organized left on the profusion of racial, gender-based, and ... Read more

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