Blacks In and Out of the Left
By: Michael C. Dawson
Series: The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780674057685
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Race identity; History; Political aspects; African Americans; Right and left (Political science); Social movements
Description: Focuses on the 1920s, 1930s, and the Black Power movement to examine successive failures of socialists and Marxists to enlist sympathetic blacks, and white leftists' refusal to fight for the cause of racial equality which led to black leftists separating from the groups and turning to the hard left or staying independent. Calls for current discontent to be mobilized within the black community to active opposition to the social and economic status quo through a return to its radical roots.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundational myths : recovering and reconciling narratives of resistance; title: Power to the people?; title: Who and what killed the left; title: Modern myths : constructing visions of the future.