Black movements in America
By: Cedric J. Robinson.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: African Americans -- History.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.; African Americans -- Civil rights.
Description: In Black Movements in America, Cedric Robinson traces the emergence of Black political cultures in the United States from slave resistances in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the civil rights movements of the present. Drawing on historical records, Robinson argues that Blacks have constructed both a culture of resistance and a culture of accommodation based on the radically different experiences of slaves and free Blacks.

Robinson concludes that contemporary Black movements are inspired by either a social vision - held by the relatively privileged strata - which holds the American nation to its ideals and public representation, and another - that of the masses - which interprets the Black experience in America as proof of the country's venality and hypocrisy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-170) and index.