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The Work of Democracy - Ralph Bunche, Kenneth B. Clark, Lorraine Hansberry, and the Cultural Politics of Race (Hardcover)
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The Work of Democracy - Ralph Bunche, Kenneth B. Clark, Lorraine Hansberry, and the Cultural Politics of Race (Hardcover)
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Thirty years after the greatest legislative triumphs of the civil
rights movement, overcoming racism remains what Martin Luther King,
Jr., once called America's unfinished "work of democracy." Why this
remains true is the subject of Ben Keppel's The Work of Democracy.
By carefully tracing the public lives of Ralph Bunche, Kenneth B.
Clark, and Lorraine Hansberry, Keppel illuminates how the
mainstream media selectively appropriated the most challenging
themes, ideas, and goals of the struggle for racial equality so
that difficult questions about the relationship between racism and
American democracy could be softened, if not entirely evaded.
Keppel traces the circumstances and cultural politics that
transformed each individual into a participant-symbol of the
postwar struggle for equality. Here we see how United Nations
ambassador Ralph Bunche, the first African American to receive the
Nobel Peace Prize, came to symbolize the American Dream while
Bunche's opposition to McCarthyism was ignored. The emergence of
psychologist and educator Kenneth B. Clark marked the ascendancy of
the child and the public school as the leading symbols of the civil
rights movement. Yet Keppel details how Clark's blueprint for
"community action" was thwarted by machine politics. Finally, the
author chronicles the process by which the "American Negro" became
an "African American" by considering the career of playwright
Lorraine Hansberry. Keppel reveals how both the journalistic and
the academic establishment rewrote the theme of her prizewinning
play A Raisin in the Sun to conform to certain well-worn cultural
conventions and the steps Hansberry took to reclaim the message of
her classic. The Work of Democracy uses biography in innovative
ways to reflect on how certain underlying cultural assumptions and
values of American culture simultaneously advanced and undermined
the postwar struggle for racial equality.
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