Black Community Uplift And The Myth Of The American Dream
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Black Community Uplift And The Myth Of The American Dream
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Author : Lori Latrice Martin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-10-26
Black Community Uplift And The Myth Of The American Dream written by Lori Latrice Martin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with Social Science categories.
This book analyzes enduring racial divides in homeownership, work, and income using the politics of respectability concept. It also examines an alternative way of understanding the Black Lives Matter movement, NFL protests, and challenges facing various black ethnic groups.
Facing Up To The American Dream
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Author : Jennifer L. Hochschild
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1996-08-05
Facing Up To The American Dream written by Jennifer L. Hochschild and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-05 with Social Science categories.
The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that dream requires of our society, and yet we possess no other central belief that can save the United States from chaos. In this compassionate but frightening book, Hochschild attributes our national distress to the ways in which whites and African Americans have come to view their own and each other's opportunities. By examining the hopes and fears of whites and especially of blacks of various social classes, Hochschild demonstrates that America's only unifying vision may soon vanish in the face of racial conflict and discontent. Hochschild combines survey data and vivid anecdote to clarify several paradoxes. Since the 1960s white Americans have seen African Americans as having better and better chances to achieve the dream. At the same time middle-class blacks, by now one-third of the African American population, have become increasingly frustrated personally and anxious about the progress of their race. Most poor blacks, however, cling with astonishing strength to the notion that they and their families can succeed--despite their terrible, perhaps worsening, living conditions. Meanwhile, a tiny number of the estranged poor, who have completely given up on the American dream or any other faith, threaten the social fabric of the black community and the very lives of their fellow blacks. Hochschild probes these patterns and gives them historical depth by comparing the experience of today's African Americans to that of white ethnic immigrants at the turn of the century. She concludes by claiming that America's only alternative to the social disaster of intensified racial conflict lies in the inclusiveness, optimism, discipline, and high-mindedness of the American dream at its best.
The Myth Of Black Progress
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Author : Alphonso Pinkney
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1984
The Myth Of Black Progress written by Alphonso Pinkney and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book analyses the status of black Americans since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Black Feminist Sociology
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Author : Zakiya Luna
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-30
Black Feminist Sociology written by Zakiya Luna and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Social Science categories.
Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS orientations to research that extend disciplinary norms, and contradictions of the pleasures and costs of such an approach both academically and personally. Authors explore their own sociological legacy of intellectual development to raise critical questions of intellectual thought and self-reflexivity. The book highlights the dynamism of BFS so future generations of scholars can expand upon and beyond the book’s key themes.
Aesthetic Apprehensions
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Author : Lene M. Johannessen
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Aesthetic Apprehensions written by Lene M. Johannessen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities is a scholarly conversation about encounters between habitual customs of reading and seeing and their ruptures and ossifications. In closely connected discourses, the thirteen essays collected here set out to carefully probe the ways our aesthetic immersions are obfuscated by deep-seated epistemological and ideological apprehensions by focusing on how the tropology carried by silence, absence, and false familarity crystallize to define the gaps that open up. As they figure in the subtitle of this volume, the tropes may seem straightforward enough, but a closer examination of their function in relation to social, cultural, and political assumptions and gestalts reveal troubling oversights. Aesthetic Apprehensions comes to name the attempt at capturing the outlier meanings residing in habituated receptions as well as the uneasy relations that result from aesthetic practices already in place, emphasizing the kinds of thresholds of sense and sensation which occasion rupture and creativity. Such, after all, is the promise of the threshold, of the liminal: to encourage our leap into otherness, for then to find ourselves and our sensing again, and anew in novel comprehensions.
Woke Capitalism
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Author : Carl Rhodes
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
Woke Capitalism written by Carl Rhodes and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Business & Economics categories.
This book delves into the corporate takeover of public morality, or ‘woke capitalism’. Discussing the political causes that it has adopted, and the social causes that it has not, it argues that this extension of capitalism has negative implications for democracy’s future.
Black Inventors In The Age Of Segregation
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Author : Rayvon Fouché
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005-09-09
Black Inventors In The Age Of Segregation written by Rayvon Fouché and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid isolation and then unveiled their discoveries to a marveling world. Most successful inventors of this era, however, developed their ideas within the framework of industrial organizations that supported them and their experiments. For African American inventors, negotiating these racially stratified professional environments meant not only working on innovative designs but also breaking barriers. In this pathbreaking study, Rayvon Fouché examines the life and work of three African Americans: Granville Woods (1856–1910), an independent inventor; Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), a corporate engineer with General Electric; and Shelby Davidson (1868–1930), who worked in the U.S. Treasury Department. Detailing the difficulties and human frailties that make their achievements all the more impressive, Fouché explains how each man used invention for financial gain, as a claim on entering adversarial environments, and as a means to technical stature in a Jim Crow institutional setting. Describing how Woods, Latimer, and Davidson struggled to balance their complicated racial identities—as both black and white communities perceived them—with their hopes of being judged solely on the content of their inventive work, Fouché provides a nuanced view of African American contributions to—and relationships with—technology during a period of rapid industrialization and mounting national attention to the inequities of a separate-but-equal social order.
Beyond The Black And White Lines
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Author : Rickey M Spratt, Jr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Beyond The Black And White Lines written by Rickey M Spratt, Jr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with categories.
Since time immemorial, the black community has hoped and longed for the American dream - a dream yet to be fulfilled, right from the times African slaves were conveyed to the American soil, the struggle for freedom and equality has been the one goal of the black community. It is the dream of a land where men of all races, colors and creeds will live together as equals.This book explains the historical milestone of the black community. Right from the beginning (the time of slavery) till present times, and the celebrated achievement, the black community, has made against all the odds. Understanding previous victories convey a form of strength and will to move on, thrive, and survive. It also talks about the life a black man will experience beyond the racial difference and discrimination. It looks at the potential struggles and expounds on how a kid growing under a single mom can find strength.This book is packed with the knowledge of the past, the hope for the future, and a balm for lost kids.
Hillbilly Nationalists Urban Race Rebels And Black Power
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Author : Amy Sonnie
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2011-09-27
Hillbilly Nationalists Urban Race Rebels And Black Power written by Amy Sonnie and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-27 with History categories.
THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORY The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. Most Americans, the story goes, just watched the political movements of the sixties go by. James Tracy and Amy Sonnie, who have been interviewing activists from the era for nearly ten years, reject this old narrative. They show that poor and working-class radicals, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and 1970s. Among these groups: + JOIN Community Union brought together southern migrants, student radicals, and welfare recipients in Chicago to fight for housing, health, and welfare . . . + The Young Patriots Organization and Rising Up Angry organized self-identified hillbillies, Chicago greasers, Vietnam vets, and young feminists into a legendary “Rainbow Coalition” with Black and Puerto Rican activists . . . + In Philadelphia, the October 4th Organization united residents of industrial Kensington against big business, war, and a repressive police force . . . + In the Bronx, White Lightning occupied hospitals and built coalitions with doctors to fight for the rights of drug addicts and the poor. Exploring an untold history of the New Left, the book shows how these groups helped to redefine community organizing—and transforms the way we think about a pivotal moment in U.S. history.
Black Bodies And Transhuman Realities
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Author : Melvin G. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-08-02
Black Bodies And Transhuman Realities written by Melvin G. Hill and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-02 with Social Science categories.
This collection explores the Black body in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. Contributing to broader thought about Black transcendence of subjectivity in a posthuman framework, the chapters explore interpretations of the “old” and visions of the “new” human.