This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black
political representation that transformed the objectives and
meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and
local struggles for racial equality, and prompted a white response
to the civil rights movement that set the stage for the neoliberal
turn in US policy. Randolph Hohle questions some of the most basic
assumptions about the civil rights movement, including the
importance of non-violence, and the movement's legacy on
contemporary black politics. Non-violence was the effect of the
movement's emphasis on racially non-threatening good black citizens
that, when contrasted to bad white responses of southern whites,
severed the relationship between whiteness and good citizenship.
Although the civil rights movement secured new legislative gains
and influenced all subsequent social movements, pressure to be good
black citizens and the subsequent marginalization of black
authenticity have internally polarized and paralyzed contemporary
black struggles. This book is the first systematic analysis of the
civil rights movement that considers the importance of
authenticity, the body, and ethics in political struggles. It
bridges the gap between the study of race, politics, and social
movement studies.
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