What is the best way to understand black political ideology?
Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces,
suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to
black college students talking about the Million Man March and
welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in
the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday
morning, to the voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment
Television.
Using statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods
"Barbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T" offers a new perspective on the
way public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots
level. The book makes an important contribution to our
understanding of black politics by shifting the focus from the
influence of national elites in opinion formation to the influence
of local elites and people in daily interaction with each other.
Arguing that African Americans use community dialogue to jointly
develop understandings of their collective political interests,
Harris-Lacewell identifies four political ideologies that
constitute the framework of contemporary black political thought:
Black Nationalism, Black Feminism, Black Conservatism and Liberal
Integrationism. These ideologies, the book posits, help African
Americans to understand persistent social and economic inequality,
to identify the significance of race in that inequality, and to
devise strategies for overcoming it.
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