Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition / Edition 3

by Manning Marable

Overview

Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics and society and written by one of the most articulate and eloquent authorities on the movement for black freedom, this acclaimed study traces the divergent elements of political, social, and moral reform in nonwhite America since 1945.

This third edition brings Marable's study into the twenty-first century, analyzing the effects of such factors as black neoconservatism, welfare reform, the Million Man March, the mainstreaming of hip-hop culture, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Marable's work, brought into the present, remains one of the most dramatic, well-conceived, and provocative histories of the struggle for African American civil rights and equality.

Through the 1950s and 1960s, Marable follows the emergence of a powerful black working class, the successful effort to abolish racial segregation, the outbreak of Black Power, urban rebellion, and the renaissance of Black Nationalism. He explores the increased participation of blacks and other ethnic groups in governmental systems and the white reaction during the period he terms the Second Reconstruction. Race, Reform, and Rebellion illustrates how poverty, illegal drugs, unemployment, and a deteriorating urban infrastructure hammered the African American community in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578061549
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	02/12/2007
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Manning Marable (1950-2011) was professor of public affairs, history, political science, and African American studies at Columbia University and the director of the university's Center for Contemporary Black History. He wrote or edited twenty-two books, including Living Black History, The Autobiography of Medgar Evers (coedited with Myrlie Evers Williams), Freedom (coauthored with Leith P. Mullings), The Great Wells of Democracy, Black Leadership, and How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments     vii
Prologue: The Legacy of the First Reconstruction     3
The Cold War in Black America, 1945-1954     12
The Demand for Reform, 1954-1960     38
We Shall Overcome 1960-1965     59
Black Power, 1965-1970     84
Black Rebellion: Zenith and Decline, 1970-1976     112
From Protest to Politics: The Retreat of the Second Reconstruction, 1976-1982     146
Reaction: Black Society and Politics during Reagan Conservatism, 1982-1990     182
Into the Wilderness: The Twilight of the Second Reconstruction, 1990-2001     216
The New Racial Domain: The Politics of Racial Inequality, 2001-2006     238
Notes     257
Bibliography     279
Index     301