Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 01, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781438468662
Description: From his leadership of the first modern lunch counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African American reparations at the time of his death at age seventy-two, Ronald W. Walters (1938-2010) was at the cutting edge of African American politics. A preeminent scholar, activist, and media commentator, he was founding chair of the Black Studies Department at Brandeis, where he shaped the epistemological parameters of the new discipline. Walters was an early strategist of congressional black power and a longtime advocate of a black presidential candidacy. His writings on the politics of race in America both predicted the constraints on President Obama in advancing African American interests and anticipated the emergence of the white nationalism found in the Tea Party and Donald Trump insurgency. In this fascinating book, Robert C. Smith combines history and biography to offer an overview of the last half century of black politics in America through the lends of the life and work of the man often described at the W.E.B. Du Bois of his time--back cover.
Notes: Source title: Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010 (SUNY series in African American Studies)