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Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era

By Adolph L. Reed

Book information

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0816626804 9780816626809
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5718281 bytes)
Pages
318\318
Topic
History
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-07-25 01:14:10

Description

Skeptical of received wisdom, Reed casts a critical eye on political trends in the black community over the past thirty years. He examines the rise of a new black political class in the aftermath of the civil rights era, and bluntly denounces black leadership that is not accountable to a black constituency; such leadership, he says, functions as a proxy for white elites. Reed debunks as myths the 'endangered black male" and the "black underclass, " and punctures what he views as the exaggeration and self-deception surrounding the black power movement and the Malcolm X revival. He chastises the Left, too, for its failure to develop an alternative politics, then lays out a practical leftist agenda and reasserts the centrality of political action.

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