African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook - Couverture rigide

 
9781576078372: African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 157607837X ISBN 13 : 9781576078372
Editeur : ABC-CLIO, 2003

Synopsis

This handbook provides a thorough treatment of the various mechanisms African Americans have used to participate in U.S. political affairs from the colonial era to the present.

With contributions by several of the field's experts, this concise, provocative volume explores the evolution and current status of African American political action. Focusing on distinct types of activity (protest politics, grassroots movements, electoral politics, political office holding), it charts the unique development of African Americans as they progressed from enslavement by whites to empowerment as citizens to an ever-growing influence on elections.

As the book vividly demonstrates, African Americans' efforts to act on their own political behalf didn't begin in the 1960s. Even while enslaved, black people courageously launched petitions, instigated strikes on plantations, and staged full-blown revolts, creating a legacy of activism that expanded through the abolition movement, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the post-World War II civil rights movement, and into the present.

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À propos de l?auteur

Minion K. C. Morrison is professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.

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Éditeur
ABC-CLIO
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
157607837X
ISBN 13 
9781576078372
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
424
Éditeur
Morrison Minion K.C.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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