Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama

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The work Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama

Title remainder

modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama

Statement of responsibility

Matthew C. Whitaker

Creator

• Whitaker, Matthew C

Subject

• 1900-talet
• 2000-talet
• African Americans
• African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
• African Americans -- Politics and government
• African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Politics and government -- 21st century
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Afro-amerikaner -- historia
• Afro-amerikaner -- politiska aspekter
• 1877-2099
• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Förenta staterna
• HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
• HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century
• History
• Medborgarrättsrörelser -- histora
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | African American Studies
• Schwarze
• USA
• United States
• Afro-amerikaner -- sociala aspekter

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"A concise, engaging, and provocative history of African Americans since World War II, Peace Be Still is also nothing less than an alternate history of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organizing this history around culture, politics, and resistance, Matthew C. Whitaker takes us from World War II as a galvanizing force for African American activism and the modern civil rights movement to the culmination of generations of struggle in the election of Barack Obama. From the promise of the post-World War II era to the black power movement of the 1960s, the economic and political struggles of the 1970s, and the major ideological realignment of political culture during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, this book chronicles a people fighting oppression while fashioning a dynamic culture of artistic and religious expression along with a program of educational and professional advancement. A resurgence of rigid conservative right-wing policies, the politics of poverty, racial profiling, and police brutality are ongoing counterpoints to African Americans rising to political prominence and securing positions once denied them. A history of African Americans for a new generation, Peace Be Still demonstrates how dramatically African American history illuminates the promise, conflicts, contradictions, hopes, and victories that all Americans share."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973/.0496073

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.6

LC item number

.W57 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography