From Black Power to Barack Obama
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/12/2009
The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60sparticularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Actto be the catalyst of a movement that culminated in the inauguration of Barack Obama. Joseph argues that the 1965 Voting Rights Act burst a dam holding back radical democratic impulses. This political explosion initially took the form of the Black Power Movement, conventionally adjudged a failure. Joseph resurrects the movement to elucidate its unfairly forgotten achievements. Told through the lives of activists, intellectuals, and artists, including Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Amiri Baraka, Tupac Shakur, and Barack Obama, Dark Days, Bright Nights will make coherent a fraught half-century of struggle, reassessing its impact on American democracy and the larger world.
- ISBN:
- 9780465013661
- 9780465013661
- Category:
- Black & Asian studies
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 15-12-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions (mm):
- 241x162x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.48kg
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