Fredrick C. Harris

Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study assessing black civic participation after the civil rights movement, Fredrick C. Harris, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian D. McKenzie demonstrate that the changes in black activism since the civil rights movement is characterized by a tug-of-war between black political power on one side and economic conditions in black communities on the other. As blacks gain greater access and influence within the political system, black participation in political activities increases while downward turns in the economic conditions of black communities produce less civic involvement in black communities. Examining changes in black activism from the early 1970s to the 1990s, this tug-of-war demonstrates that the quest for black political empowerment and the realities of economic and social life act as countervailing forces, in which negative economic and social conditions in black communities weaken the capacity of blacks to organize so that their political voices can be heard.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511133763
• Artikelnr.: 38194625

Autorenporträt

Fredrick C. Harris is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of African-American Politics at the University of Rochester. Previously he was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and was named a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Harris is the author of Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism (Oxford University Press), which won the V.O. Key Award for Best Book in Southern Politics, the Distinguished Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, thr Best Book Award by National Conference of Black Political Scientists, and the Choice Award.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Good times and bad: trends in the economic, social, and
political conditions of African Americans in the post-civil rights era; 3.
Studying group activism: toward a macro approach to black civic
participation; 4. Echoes of black civic activism: historical foundations
and longitudinal considerations; 5. Shifting forces: modeling changes in
post-civil rights black activism; 6. From margin to center: bringing
structural forces into focus in the analysis of black activism.