Title: Black movements in America
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: African Americans, History, Civil rights movements, Civil rights, Ligues des droits de l'homme, Noirs américains, Soziale Bewegung, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Mouvements antiesclavagistes, Histoire, Bürgerrechtsbewegung, Droits, Protestbewegingen, Negers, Droits civils et politiques, Geschichte, African americans, history, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, Mouvements des droits de l'homme, State & Local, General
Places: United States
LC classification: E185.86 .R68 1997