George Lipsitz

A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now updated to include the final chapter of Ivory Perry's life, this new edition completes the life story of the grass-roots activist whose flamboyant direct action protests and patient behind the scenes organizing helped educate and agitate his community in the struggle for civil rights and economic opportunity.

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on the P
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Rev
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781566393218
• ISBN-10: 1566393213
• Artikelnr.: 22173675

Autorenporträt

George Lipsitz is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. The author of six books, he most recently published  Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: Peace in the Struggle 
1. Pine Bluff: The Moral Resources of a Southern Black Community 
2. Korea: The Lessons of War 
3. St. Louis: Civil Rights and the Industrial City 
4. Bogalusa: Civil Rights in a Southern City 
5. The War on Poverty: The Emergence of an Organic Intellectual 
6. The Rent Strike: Housing Issues and Social Protest 
7. Lead Poisoning: Peace and Pain in the Struggle 
8. Politics in the Postindustrial City 
9. Collective Memory and Social Learning: Deep Like the Rivers 
Epilogue 
Notes 
Interviews and Archives 
Index