Race, Reform, and Rebellion

The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006

Author: Manning Marable
ISBN: 9781578061549

Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics and society and written by one of the most articulate and eloquent authorities on the movement for black freedom, this acclaimed study traces the divergent elements of political, social, and moral reform in nonwhite America since 1945. This updated edition brings Marable's study into the twenty-first century, analyzing the effects of such factors as black neoconservatism, welfare reform, the Million Man March, the mainstreaming of hip-hop culture, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Marable's work, brought into the present, remains one of the most dramatic, well-conceived, and provocative histories of the struggle for African American civil rights and equality. Through the 1950s and 1960s, Marable follows the emergence of a powerful black workin

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publish Date: 2007

Subjects: History / United States / 20th Century, Political Science / Civil Rights, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Minority Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Black Resource Center (Location: 1A), Black Resource Center (Location: 2A)