MATTHEW COUNTRYMAN’S UP SOUTH arrives at just the right time. Historical interpretations of the c... more MATTHEW COUNTRYMAN’S UP SOUTH arrives at just the right time. Historical interpretations of the civil rights movement are undergoing a profound shift. Urban history is enjoying a renaissance. And political history is again receiving its due. Countryman sits astride all of these developments and contributes in ways both remarkable and subtle to an emerging historiography of race and politics in the post–World War II United States. His study of the “Philadelphia movement,” as he calls the city’s civil rights and Black Power politics, traces an arc from the Popular Front of the immediate postwar years through the civil rights liberalism of the 1950s to the nationalist insurgency of the 1960s. He argues for a political continuum that no longer privileges the national movement and does not presume that a liberal civil rights coalition was natural and inevitable. Instead, Countryman shows that the Philadelphia movement was shaped by a decades-long battle over liberal strategies to achieve...
In addition to co-editing this title, Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "White Tigers, Br... more In addition to co-editing this title, Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My!" and (with Jama Lazerow) "The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now?". Book description: Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover called "the single greatest threat to the nation's internal security" has been celebrated and denigrated, deified and vilified. Rarely, though, has it received the sort of nuanced analysis offered in this rich interdisciplinary collection. Historians, along with scholars in the fields of political science, English, sociology, and criminal justice, examine the Panthers and their present-day legacy with regard to revolutionary violence, radical ideology, urban politics, popular culture, and the media. The essays consider the Panthers as distinctly American revolutionaries, as the products of specific local conditions, and as parts of other movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. One contributor evaluates the legal basis of the Panthers' revolutionary struggle, explaining how they utilized and critiqued the language of the Constitution. Others explore the roles of individuals, looking at a one-time Panther imprisoned for a murder he did not commit and an FBI agent who monitored the activities of the Panthers' Oakland branch. Contributors assess the Panthers' relations with Students for a Democratic Society, the Young Lords, the Brown Berets, and the Peace and Freedom Party. They discuss the Party's use of revolutionary aesthetics, and they show how the Panthers manipulated and were manipulated by the media. Illuminating some of the complexities involved in placing the Panthers in historical context, this collection demonstrates that the scholarly search for the Black Panthers has only just begun.
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2005
HISTORICAL STUDIES OF URBAN AMERICA Edited by Kathleen N. Conzen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and James ... more HISTORICAL STUDIES OF URBAN AMERICA Edited by Kathleen N. Conzen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and James R. Grossman ALSO IN THE SERIES Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North by John T. McGreevy Modern Housing ...
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2004
There are advantages to focusing a single analytical lens on a complex and multidimensional histo... more There are advantages to focusing a single analytical lens on a complex and multidimensional historical event. Lines of causation can be drawn clearly. Intention, action, and consequence can be isolated and explored in depth. This is what Daniel Kryder has done for federal policy toward African Americans during World War II. A political scientist, Kryder looks at African Americans in war production industries, the army, and southern agriculture in the context of two overriding imperatives of officials of the federal state: maintaining wartime production and gaining reelection. He moves to the heart of what states do in wartime. They mobilize industry and people. They suppress dissent. They contain social unrest. Given these demands it is not surprising, Kryder argues, that reform of federal racial policy between 1941 and 1945 was so limited in scope, despite widespread black protest, calls for more progressive measures, and the popular “Double V” campaign. But there are also pitfalls...
Page 1. CALIFORNIA AND THE NEW SUBURBAN HISTORY Robert O. Self Becky M. Nicolaides. ... Page 3. S... more Page 1. CALIFORNIA AND THE NEW SUBURBAN HISTORY Robert O. Self Becky M. Nicolaides. ... Page 3. SELF / California and the New Suburban History 129 ...
MATTHEW COUNTRYMAN’S UP SOUTH arrives at just the right time. Historical interpretations of the c... more MATTHEW COUNTRYMAN’S UP SOUTH arrives at just the right time. Historical interpretations of the civil rights movement are undergoing a profound shift. Urban history is enjoying a renaissance. And political history is again receiving its due. Countryman sits astride all of these developments and contributes in ways both remarkable and subtle to an emerging historiography of race and politics in the post–World War II United States. His study of the “Philadelphia movement,” as he calls the city’s civil rights and Black Power politics, traces an arc from the Popular Front of the immediate postwar years through the civil rights liberalism of the 1950s to the nationalist insurgency of the 1960s. He argues for a political continuum that no longer privileges the national movement and does not presume that a liberal civil rights coalition was natural and inevitable. Instead, Countryman shows that the Philadelphia movement was shaped by a decades-long battle over liberal strategies to achieve...
In addition to co-editing this title, Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "White Tigers, Br... more In addition to co-editing this title, Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My!" and (with Jama Lazerow) "The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now?". Book description: Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover called "the single greatest threat to the nation's internal security" has been celebrated and denigrated, deified and vilified. Rarely, though, has it received the sort of nuanced analysis offered in this rich interdisciplinary collection. Historians, along with scholars in the fields of political science, English, sociology, and criminal justice, examine the Panthers and their present-day legacy with regard to revolutionary violence, radical ideology, urban politics, popular culture, and the media. The essays consider the Panthers as distinctly American revolutionaries, as the products of specific local conditions, and as parts of other movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. One contributor evaluates the legal basis of the Panthers' revolutionary struggle, explaining how they utilized and critiqued the language of the Constitution. Others explore the roles of individuals, looking at a one-time Panther imprisoned for a murder he did not commit and an FBI agent who monitored the activities of the Panthers' Oakland branch. Contributors assess the Panthers' relations with Students for a Democratic Society, the Young Lords, the Brown Berets, and the Peace and Freedom Party. They discuss the Party's use of revolutionary aesthetics, and they show how the Panthers manipulated and were manipulated by the media. Illuminating some of the complexities involved in placing the Panthers in historical context, this collection demonstrates that the scholarly search for the Black Panthers has only just begun.
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2005
HISTORICAL STUDIES OF URBAN AMERICA Edited by Kathleen N. Conzen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and James ... more HISTORICAL STUDIES OF URBAN AMERICA Edited by Kathleen N. Conzen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and James R. Grossman ALSO IN THE SERIES Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North by John T. McGreevy Modern Housing ...
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2004
There are advantages to focusing a single analytical lens on a complex and multidimensional histo... more There are advantages to focusing a single analytical lens on a complex and multidimensional historical event. Lines of causation can be drawn clearly. Intention, action, and consequence can be isolated and explored in depth. This is what Daniel Kryder has done for federal policy toward African Americans during World War II. A political scientist, Kryder looks at African Americans in war production industries, the army, and southern agriculture in the context of two overriding imperatives of officials of the federal state: maintaining wartime production and gaining reelection. He moves to the heart of what states do in wartime. They mobilize industry and people. They suppress dissent. They contain social unrest. Given these demands it is not surprising, Kryder argues, that reform of federal racial policy between 1941 and 1945 was so limited in scope, despite widespread black protest, calls for more progressive measures, and the popular “Double V” campaign. But there are also pitfalls...
Page 1. CALIFORNIA AND THE NEW SUBURBAN HISTORY Robert O. Self Becky M. Nicolaides. ... Page 3. S... more Page 1. CALIFORNIA AND THE NEW SUBURBAN HISTORY Robert O. Self Becky M. Nicolaides. ... Page 3. SELF / California and the New Suburban History 129 ...
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