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Pages
311

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Table of Contents

Reaching for the American dream
Confronting racism in society ... and in ourselves
Mental tricks and quirks
Racial prejudice
An example of racism
Implications of racism and anti-racism
Understanding racism
What is race
Racism ... and what it does to many of its victims
Individual racism and institutional racism
1) individual racism
2) institutional racism
The history of racism and anti-racism
Development of anti-black racism in the United States
African-American freedom struggles
Twelve lives
Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany
Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. Dubois and A. Philip Randolph
Paul Robeson and Bayard Rustin
Ella Baker
Overcoming racism
Achievements and limitations of the civil rights movement
1) ferment
2) the movement emerges
3) the strategic vision
4) victory and crisis
5) militancy and decline
6) the price of failure
Where do we go from here?
1) understanding the insights of Malcolm X
2) advancing the vision of Martin Luther King
Practical steps
Initial reflections
A general approach
1) anti-racist work must be at two levels: individual and institutional
2) an oppressed people has the right to self-determination
3) a class approach is a key to success
4) a multi-cultural approach is a key to success
5) a combination of self-interest and moral force is necessary
6) win real victories and build the power of the movement.

Edition Notes

Published in
Amherst, N.Y
Series
Revolutionary studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.896/073
Library of Congress
E185.615 .B542 2003, E185.615.B542 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
311 p. ;
Number of pages
311

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3676501M
Internet Archive
blackliberationa0000unse
ISBN 10
1591021545
LCCN
2003014334
OCLC/WorldCat
52542603
Goodreads
654124

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