Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
| AUTHOR | Joseph, Peniel E. |
| PUBLISHER | Basic Books (02/05/2013) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s -- particularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- to be the catalyst of a movement that culminated in the inauguration of Barack Obama. Joseph argues that the 1965 Voting Rights Act burst a dam holding back radical democratic impulses. This political explosion initially took the form of the Black Power Movement, conventionally adjudged a failure. Joseph resurrects the movement to elucidate its unfairly forgotten achievements. Told through the lives of activists, intellectuals, and artists, including Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Amiri Baraka, Tupac Shakur, and Barack Obama, Dark Days, Bright Nights will make coherent a fraught half-century of struggle, reassessing its impact on American democracy and the larger world.
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ISBN-13:
9780465033133
ISBN-10:
046503313X
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
296
Carton Quantity:
22
Product Dimensions:
5.50 x 0.90 x 8.20 inches
Weight:
0.60 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
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Table of Contents
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Social Science | Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl
Grade Level:
College Freshman
and up
Dewey Decimal:
323.119
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The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s -- particularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- to be the catalyst of a movement that culminated in the inauguration of Barack Obama. Joseph argues that the 1965 Voting Rights Act burst a dam holding back radical democratic impulses. This political explosion initially took the form of the Black Power Movement, conventionally adjudged a failure. Joseph resurrects the movement to elucidate its unfairly forgotten achievements. Told through the lives of activists, intellectuals, and artists, including Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Amiri Baraka, Tupac Shakur, and Barack Obama, Dark Days, Bright Nights will make coherent a fraught half-century of struggle, reassessing its impact on American democracy and the larger world.
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Author:
Joseph, Peniel E.
Peniel E. Joseph is an assistant professor of Africana studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. The recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars and the Ford Foundation, his work has appeared in "Souls," "New Formations," and "The Black Scholar," and he is editor of a forthcoming anthology on the Black Power movement. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
International Center for Scholars and the Ford Foundation, his work has appeared in "Souls," "New Formations," and "The Black Scholar," and he is editor of a forthcoming anthology on the Black Power movement. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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