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Autore: | Banner-Haley Charles T |
Titolo: | The Fruits of Integration [[electronic resource] ] : Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990 |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.5/5/08996073 |
Soggetto topico: | African Americans -- Civil rights |
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | |
African Americans | |
Middle class -- United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Ambiguity of Nomenclature; 1. Leaders of Thought, Missionaries of Culture; 2. From the Hollow to the High Ground and Back: The Civil Rights Movement and Its Aftermath; 3. To Preserve the Dignity of the Race: Black Conservatives and Affirmative Action; 4. Integrating the Many Voices: The Continuing Growth of African American Literature; 5. Sound and Image: The Cultural Fruits of Integration; 6. Changing the Guard: AfroAmerica's New Guardians of Culture; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
Sommario/riassunto: | In late twentieth-century America the black middle class has occupied a unique position. It greatly influenced the way African Americans were perceived and presented to the greater society, and it set roles and guidelines for the nation's black masses. Though historically a small group, it has attempted to be a model for inspiration and uplift. As a key force in the ""Africanizing"" of American culture, the black middle class has been both a shaper and a mirror during the past three decades. This study of that era shows that the fruits of integration have been at once sweet and bitter. This hi |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Fruits of Integration |
ISBN: | 1-283-03119-1 |
9786613031198 | |
1-61703-113-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459703103321 |
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