The Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for the Redemption of America
Part of a special issue on race, security, and social activism in the U.S. The history of the interaction of the ideas put forward by the Black Power and the Civil Rights movements is explored. It is argued that although the challenge mounted by these movements in the 1960s was dependent on the cont...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2003
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Social justice
Year: 2003, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-66 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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Summary: | Part of a special issue on race, security, and social activism in the U.S. The history of the interaction of the ideas put forward by the Black Power and the Civil Rights movements is explored. It is argued that although the challenge mounted by these movements in the 1960s was dependent on the continual mobilization of an insurrectionary community and thus could not be sustained, the much-lamented shattering of the 1960s left-liberal consensus was an inevitable and indeed liberating transformation for revolutionary social activism. |
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