African Americans and Political Participation - A Reference Handbook

This handbook provides a thorough treatment of the various mechanisms African Americans have used to participate in U.S. political affairs from the colonial era to the present.With contributions by several of the field''s experts, this concise, provocative volume explores the evolution and current status of African American political action. Focusing on distinct types of activity (protest politics, grassroots movements, electoral politics, political office holding), it charts the unique development of African Americans as they progressed from enslavement by whites to empowerment as citizens to an ever-growing influence on elections.As the book vividly demonstrates, African Americans'' efforts to act on their own political behalf didn''t begin in the 1960s. Even while enslaved, black people courageously launched petitions, instigated strikes on plantations, and staged full-blown revolts, creating a legacy of activism that expanded through the abolition movement, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the post-World War II civil rights movement, and into the present.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Minion K C Morrison, Bennie Gordon Thompson
• Con la collaborazione di: Minion K. C. Morrison (Editore), Minion K.C. Morrison (Editore), Raymond A. Smith (Editore), Bennie Gordon Thompson (Prefazione)
• Editore: Abc Clio Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 7 a 17 anni
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.07.2003
• EAN: 9781576078372
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-837-2
• Pagine: 424
• Serie: Political Participation in America
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, HISTORY / Reference, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference, Politics & government, Reference works, Regional Studies, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General