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We have no leaders : African Americans in the post-civil rights era /

This is the first comprehensive study of African American politics from the end of the 1960s civil rights era to the present. Not an optimistic book, it concludes that the black movement has been almost wholly encapsulated into mainstream institutions, coopted, and marginalized. As a result, the aut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1996.
Colección:SUNY series in Afro-American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: From protest to incorporation: a framework for analysis of civil rights movement outcomes
  • Part 2: The national black political convention 1972-84
  • Continuity and innovation in post-civil rights era black organization
  • Part 3: Black incorporation and institutionalization in the post-civil rights era: leading America and leading blacks
  • Blacks and presidential policy making: neglect, policy, symbols, and cooptation
  • Blacks in congressional decision making: a policy consensus on civil rights, 1970-1994
  • Blacks in congressional decision making: the Humphrey-Hawkins act as symbolic politics
  • Blacks in congressional decision making: neglect and invisibility on social and economic reform
  • Part 4: Symbolic politics at high tide: Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition
  • Racial symbolism as "ideology" in the post-civil rights era, and a postscript on the Clinton administration and the 1994 election
  • Part 5: From incorporation toward irrelevance: the Afro-American freedom struggle in the 21st century
  • Appendix: A comparison of Democratic party platform language on full employment, 1944-92.