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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814767303321

Autore

Mumford Kevin J

Titolo

Newark [[electronic resource] ] : a history of race, rights, and riots in America / / Kevin Mumford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-5989-0

0-8147-6115-1

1-4356-0734-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

American history and culture

Disciplina

305.896/07309749320904

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - New Jersey - Newark - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - New Jersey - Newark - History - 20th century

Riots - New Jersey - Newark - History - 20th century

African Americans - New Jersey - Newark - Politics and government - 20th century

Black nationalism - New Jersey - Newark - Politics and government - 20th century

Written communication - Political aspects - New Jersey - Newark - History - 20th century

Newark (N.J.) Race relations History 20th century

Newark (N.J.) Politics and government 20th century

Newark (N.J.) Race relations History 20th century Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; I Integration; 1 The Central Ward and the Rites of the Public Sphere; 2 Double V in New Jersey; 3 The Construction of Integration; 4 The Limits of Interracial Activism; 5 Brutal Realities and the Roots of the Disorders; II Uprising; 6 Testimonies to Violation and Violence; 7 The Reconstruction of Black Womanhood; 8 Baraka v. Imperiale: The Excesses of Racial Nationalism; 9 Black Power in Newark; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous



with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts this important city's place in the nation, from its founding in 1666 by a dissident Puritan as a refuge from intolerance, through the days of Jim Crow and World War II civil rights activism, to the height of postwar integration and the election of its first black mayor. In this broad and balanced histor