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The Movement - The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (Hardcover): Thomas C. Holt The Movement - The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (Hardcover)
Thomas C. Holt
R524 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R34 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it. Holt conveys a sense of these developments as a social movement, one that shaped its participants even as they shaped it. He emphasizes the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders. This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of "movement" back into our image and understanding of the civil rights movement.

The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): Thomas C. Holt The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Thomas C. Holt
R303 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For many, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans and the world know about that remarkable decade of struggle. In The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it. Holt conveys a sense of these developments as a social movement, one that shaped its participants even as they shaped it. He emphasizes the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders. This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of "movement" back into our image and understanding of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Problem of Freedom - Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Paperback): Thomas C. Holt The Problem of Freedom - Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Paperback)
Thomas C. Holt
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"A spirited and absorbing history of emancipation, oppression, and rebellion in the British empire."--C. Vann Woodward. "Holt greatly extends and deepens our understanding of the emancipation experience when, for just over a century, the people of Jamaica struggled to achieve their own vision of freedom and autonomy against powerful conservative forces."--David Barry Gaspar.

Societies After Slavery - A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South A... Societies After Slavery - A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South A (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Rebecca J Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, Aims McGuinness
R1,801 Discovery Miles 18 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children. "Societies after Slavery" provides thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, making it the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa.

Children of Fire - A History of African Americans (Hardcover): Thomas C. Holt Children of Fire - A History of African Americans (Hardcover)
Thomas C. Holt
R781 R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ordinary people do not experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? In this groundbreaking new book, the renowned historian Thomas C. Holt challenges this convention to tell the story of generations of African Americans through the lived experience of the subjects themselves, with all of the nuances, ironies, contradictions, and complexities one might expect.

The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, New edition): Thomas C. Holt The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, New edition)
Thomas C. Holt
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the twenty-first century, the problem remains--and yet it, and the line that defines it, have shifted in subtle but significant ways. This brief book speaks powerfully to the question of how the circumstances of race and racism have changed in our time--and how these changes will affect our future. Foremost among the book's concerns are the contradictions and incoherence of a system that idealizes black celebrities in politics, popular culture, and sports even as it diminishes the average African-American citizen. The world of the assembly line, boxer Jack Johnson's career, and The Birth of a Nation come under Holt's scrutiny as he relates the malign progress of race and racism to the loss of industrial jobs and the rise of our modern consumer society. Understanding race as ideology, he describes the processes of consumerism and commodification that have transformed, but not necessarily improved, the place of black citizens in our society. As disturbing as it is enlightening, this timely work reveals the radical nature of change as it relates to race and its cultural phenomena. It offers conceptual tools and a new way to think and talk about racism as social reality.

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