Black America in the shadow of the sixties : notes on the civil rights movement, neoliberalism, and politics / Clarence Lang.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lang, Clarence
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Series:Class, culture.
Subjects:
African Americans > Politics and government > 21st century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Civil rights movements > United States > 20th century > Anniversaries, etc.
Nineteen sixties.
Neoliberalism > History > 21st century.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xx, 159 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • On the outskirts of the sixties
  • The current moment : civil rights anniversaries, the black man in a white house, and inequality in the new millennium
  • The "end" of African American history and the violence of neoliberalism
  • The persistent sixties : "yes, we can," "hands off Obama," and the death of Trayvon Martin
  • "Between the gun and the target" : the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the 2013 Florida Convention
  • Standing our ground.