LEADER 04458nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910463320503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07407-6 010 $a0-674-07401-7 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674074019 035 $a(CKB)2670000000352478 035 $a(EBL)3301297 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000999662 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12392892 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000999662 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10933931 035 $a(PQKB)10057413 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000940862 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11598332 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000940862 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10975347 035 $a(PQKB)10520927 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301297 035 $a(DE-B1597)209728 035 $a(OCoLC)843114595 035 $a(OCoLC)979832739 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674074019 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301297 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10695171 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000352478 100 $a20121016d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlacks in and out of the left$b[electronic resource] /$fMichael C. Dawson 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 0 $aThe W. E. B. Du Bois lectures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-05768-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. Foundational Myths --$tChapter 2. Power To The People? --$tChapter 4. Modern Myths --$tReferences --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson investigates the causes and consequences of the decline of black radicalism as a force in American politics and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race sufficiently seriously as a historical force in reshaping American institutions, politics, and civil society. African Americans have been in the vanguard of progressive social movements throughout American history, but they have been written out of many histories of social liberalism. Focusing on the 1920's and 1930's, as well as the Black Power movement, Dawson examines successive failures of socialists and Marxists to enlist sympathetic blacks, and white leftists' refusal to fight for the cause of racial equality. Angered by the often outright hostility of the Socialist Party and similar social democratic organizations, black leftists separated themselves from these groups and either turned to the hard left or stayed independent. A generation later, the same phenomenon helped fueled the Black Power movement's turn toward a variety of black nationalist, Maoist, and other radical political groups. The 2008 election of Barack Obama notwithstanding, many African Americans still believe they will not realize the fruits of American prosperity any time soon. This pervasive discontent, Dawson suggests, must be mobilized within the black community into active opposition to the social and economic status quo. Black politics needs to find its way back to its radical roots as a vital component of new American progressive movements. 410 0$aW.E.B. du Bois Lectures 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$y21st century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xPolitical aspects 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRight and left (Political science)$xHistory 606 $aSocial movements$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 615 0$aRight and left (Political science)$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial movements$xHistory. 676 $a323.1196/073 700 $aDawson$b Michael C.$f1951-$01043486 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463320503321 996 $aBlacks in and out of the left$92468495 997 $aUNINA