Critical Race Consciousness: Reconsidering American Ideologies of Racial Justice

Despite the apparent racial progress reflected in Obama's election, the African American community in the United States is in a deep crisis on many fronts - economic, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual. This book sets out to trace the ideological roots of this crisis.Challenging the conventional historical narrative of race in America, Peller contends that the structure of contemporary racial discourse was set in the confrontation between liberal integrationism and black nationalism during the 1960s and 1970s. Arguing that the ideology of integration that emerged was highly conservative, apologetic, and harmful to the African American community, this book is sure to provide a new lens for studying - and learning from - American race relations in the twentieth century.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Peller, Gary
Published: 06/30/2011
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
ISBN: 9781594519048
Pages: 239
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d