The Great Wells Of Democracy - Couverture rigide

Marable, Manning

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465043933 ISBN 13 : 9780465043934

Editeur : Civitas Books, 2002

Synopsis

In his boldest and most accessible book to date, Manning Marable lays out a new way to think about the past and the future of race in America. Building upon a unique framework for understanding black history from slavery to Jim Crow to the modern urban ghetto, Marable charts a new course for racial progress. He looks beyond the impasse of liberal strategies such as affirmative action and proposes a new kind of inclusive democracy.Exploding traditional lines of left and right, Marable stakes out such controversial and seemingly incompatible positions as the re-enfranchisement of felons, state support for faith-based institutions, reparations for slavery that systematically inject capital into the black community, and a reconfiguration of racial identities that accounts for the increasingly multi-racial nature of our society. He exhorts us to construct a new political language and practical public policies to bridge the racial divide--so that we do no less than reinvent the democratic project called America.Combining the breadth of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow with the urgency of Cornel West's Race Matters, Manning Marable offers the most challenging and important book on the politics of race to appear since the heyday of the civil rights movement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Manning Marable is Professor of Hist ory of Political Science at Columbia University, w here he also serves as the founding director of th e Institute for Research in African-American Studi es. A prolific scholar, writer, and editor, his bo oks include Black Leadership (1998), Speaking Trut h to Power (1996), and Race, Reform and Rebellion (1991). For a quarter of a century, he has written "Along the Color Line," a syndicated political af fairs column that appears in more than 400 black-o wned and black-oriented mass publications througho ut the United States, as well as in Canada, the U. K., the Caribbean, and India. He regularly appears on media such as "Today," "Charlie Rose," "ABC We ekend News," Fox Network News, NPR, and the BBC, and speaks frequently on behalf of prisoners' righ ts, civil rights, labor, and social justice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Civitas Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0465043933
• ISBN 13: 9780465043934
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible