Dark Days, Bright Nights : From Black Power to Barack Obama
ISBN: 9780465013661 | 046501366X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 1/5/2010
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A rising historian's narrative chronicle of race in America, and the successes, failures, and stalemates of black leaders in the past fifty years
The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s--particularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act--to be the catalyst of a movement that culminated... MORE
The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s--particularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act--to be the catalyst of a movement that culminated... MORE
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Reimagining the Black Power Movement | p. 11 |
| Malcolm X, Harlem, and American Democracy | p. 35 |
| Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s | p. 107 |
| "A Place Where All Things Are Possible": Barack Obama and Dreams of Democracy | p. 161 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 231 |
| Notes | p. 235 |
| Index | p. 265 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All... MORE |
Peniel E. Joseph is professor of history at Tufts University and the author of Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Ford Foundation, and his work has appeared in Souls, New Formations, and The Black Scholar. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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