Author: | George M. Fredrickson |
Subcategory: | Humanities |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press; 1 edition (October 31, 1996) |
Pages: | 400 pages |
Category: | Other |
Rating: | 4.7 |
Other formats: | lrf lit lit rtf |
A brilliant comparative history of black responses to white supremacy in South Africa and the United States . The book traces the rise of Communist influence in black movements in the two nations in the 1920s and '30s, and the adoption of Gandhian nonviolent protest after World War II.
A brilliant comparative history of black responses to white supremacy in South Africa and the United States during the last century and a quarter or s. The story of India's struggle, however, was not to be repeated in either America or South Africa: in one nation, nonviolence revealed its limitations, encouraging splits in the civil rights movement; in the other, it failed, fostering an armed struggle against white supremacy.
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He reveals a rich history-not merely of parallel developments, but of an intricate, transatlantic web of influences and cross-fertilization. He begins with early moments of hope in both tion in the United States, and the liberal colonialism of British Cape Colony-when the promise of suffrage led educated black elites to fight for color-blind equality. George M.
Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (1995). The Comparative Imagination: On Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements (1997). Racism: A Short History (2002). Fredrickson's Racism: A Short History captured his conception "of racial inequality and racism, as ideology and practice in Western societies over the past half millennium," and how it is "based on the three primary components: ideas of racial purity, cultural essentialism or particularism, and a 'them' vs. 'us' mindset in which difference and power (and powerlessness) structured racist regimes.
This look at the nature of black protest in South Africa and the US is a profound and necessary contribution to the field of black studies. History professor Fredrickson (Stanford; White Supremacy, 1981, et. puts forth the general thesis that, in both countries, black leaders were motivated not by a desire to switch places with their oppressors but by a wish to create a truly equal, race-blind polity that hewed to the best of Western democratic philosophy. BLACK LIBERATION: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United Stales and South Africa. By. Get weekly book recommendations
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Black Liberation : A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa. It is really techical and in-depth in the sense that you can't just breeze through the pages
Black Liberation : A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa. by George M. It is really techical and in-depth in the sense that you can't just breeze through the pages. So, if you have time to not only read but also breakdown the elements of this book then I would definitely recommend it for you.
A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa. Showing the stunning parallels in the politics of black peoples on both sides of the Atlantic, this offers definitive proof of the robust continuity of black freedom struggles. A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa. Fredrickson, Professor of History, Stanford University.