Debate on Black Civil Rights in America

Informationen zum Autor Kevern Verney is a Reader in History at Edge Hill College of Higher Education Klappentext Here is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It provides a critical historiographical review of the most current thinking and explains how and why research and discourse have evolved in the ways that they have. Individual chapters focus on particular periods in African American history from the spread of racial segregation in the 1890s through to the postwar Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of the sixties and seventies. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's ForwordPrefaceIntroduction 1. Segregation and Accommodation, 1895-19152. The Great Migration and the 'New Negro', 1915-19303. The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930-19454. The Post-war Civil Rights Movement, 1945-19655. Malcolm X and Black Power, 1960-19806. The New Conservatism, 1980-20027. African Americans and U. S. Popular Culture, 1895-2002ConclusionGuidance on Further Reading

Product details

• Authors: Kevern Verney, Verney Kevern
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780719067617
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6761-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Issues in Historiography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous