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At one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name.
As president of the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
(BSCP), he was an embodiment of America's multifaceted radical
tradition, a leading spokesman for Black America, and a potent
symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation for nearly half
a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, the
assaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the
overall silencing of labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he
has been largely forgotten among large segments of the general
public before whom he once loomed so large. Historians, however,
have not only continued to focus on Randolph himself, but his role
(either direct, or via his legacy) in a wide range of social,
political, cultural, and even religious milieu and movements. The
authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph's dusty portrait
down from the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars
to regard him in new, and often competing, lights. This collection
of essays gathers, for the very first time, many genres of
perspectives on Randolph. Featuring both established and emergent
intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiography
and blanket condemnation alike. The contributors represent the
diverse ways that historians have approached the importance of his
long and complex career in the main political, social, and cultural
currents of twentieth-century African American specifically, and
twentieth-century U.S. history overall. The central goal of
Reframing Randolph is to achieve a combination of synthetic and
critical reappraisal.
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Race Struggles (Paperback)
Theodore Koditschek, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Helen A Neville; Contributions by Pedro Caban, David Crockett, …
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R806
Discovery Miles 8 060
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This collection is a contribution to the ongoing examination of
race and its relation to class and gender. The essays in the volume
start with the premise that although race, like class and gender,
is socially constructed, all three categories have been shaped
profoundly by their context in a capitalist society. Race, in other
words, is a historical category that develops not only in
dialectical relation to class and gender but also in relation to
the material conditions in which all three are forged. These
assumptions underlie the organization of the volume, which is
divided into three parts: "Racial Structures," which explores the
problem of how race has historically been structured in modern
capitalist societies; "Racial Ideology and Identity," which tackles
diverse but interrelated questions regarding the representation of
race and racism in dominant ideologies and discourses; and
"Struggle," which builds on the insight that resistance to
structures and ideologies of racial oppression is always situated
in a particular time and place. In addition to discussing and
analyzing various dimensions of the African American experience,
contributors also consider the ways in which race plays itself out
in the experience of Asian Americans and in the very different
geopolitical environments of the British Empire and postcolonial
Africa. Contributors are Pedro Cabán, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua,
David Crockett, Theodore Koditschek, Scott Kurashige, Clarence
Lang, Minkah Makalani, Helen A. Neville, Tola Olu Pearce, David
Roediger, Monica M. White, and Jeffrey Williams.
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