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Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era

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Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era - Reed Jr, Adolph
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Skeptical of received wisdom, Reed casts a critical eye on political trends in the black community over the past thirty years. He examines the rise of a new black political class in the aftermath of the civil rights era, and bluntly denounces black leadership that is not accountable to a black constituency; such leadership, he says, functions as a proxy for white elites. Reed debunks as myths the 'endangered black male" and the "black underclass, " and punctures what he views as the exaggeration and self-deception ...

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Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era 1999, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN

ISBN-13: 9780816626816

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