Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles - Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging, and Civil Rights

Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging and Civil Rights examines the construction of blackness within shifting post-civil rights, post-colonial and neo-colonial contexts. The volume helps to contextualize the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights.

About the author

Violet Showers Johnson is Professor of History and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University.

Gundolf Graml is Associate Professor of German at Agnes Scott College.

Patricia Williams Lessane is Executive Director of the Avery Institute of Afro-American History & Culture at the College of Charleston.

Summary

This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. It offers a fresh look at familiar concepts such as activism and belonging and models innovative approaches for studying the African diasporic experience in the 21st century.

Product details

• Authors: Violet Showers Johnson, Violet Showers Graml Johnson, Violet Showers Johnson
• Assisted by: Gundolf Graml (Editor), Violet Showers Johnson (Editor), Williams Lessane Patricia (Editor), Violet Showers Johnson (Editor), Patricia Williams Lessane (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781786940339
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-033-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies); Forecaast Lup; FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies); Forecaast Lup; Forecaast (Forum for European
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Afrikanische Geschichte, HISTORY / African American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Ethnic Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)