Description
Book SynopsisRace, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement is a unique sociohistorical analysis of the civil rights movement. In it Jack M. Bloom analyzes the interaction between the economy and political systems in the South, which led to racial stratification.
Trade ReviewBooks that significantly reorient fields of study are rare. Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement, did that for the study of the civil rights movement when if first appeared in 1987. Rarer still are books that seem just as relevant 40 years later. As the new material in the 2nd edition of the makes clear, this edition belongs in this second select group as well.
-- William Bryce * Against the Current *
Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition
Introduction
I. The Changing Political Economy of Racism
1. The Political Economy of Southern Racism
2. The Old Order Changes
3. 1948: The Opening of the Breach
4. The Splitting of the Solid South
II. The Black Movement
5. The Defeat of White Power and the Emergence of the "New Negro" in the South
6. The Second Wave
7. Ghetto Revolts, Black Power, and the Limits of the Civil Rights Coalition
8. Class and Race: A Retrospective
Notes
Bibliography
Index
