The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism - Couverture souple

Darda, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1503630927 ISBN 13 : 9781503630925

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2022

Synopsis

How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change

What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies.

Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joseph Darda is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of How White Men Won the Culture Wars: A History of Veteran America and Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1503630927
• ISBN 13: 9781503630925
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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