Race, Reform, and Rebellion

The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition

Manning Marable

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781578061532
• eBook ISBN: 9781496847393
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American History
• Index: Social Sciences

Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics and society and written by one of the most articulate and eloquent authorities on the movement for black freedom, this acclaimed study traces the divergent elements of political, social, and moral reform in nonwhite America since 1945. This third edition brings Marable's study into the twenty-first century, analyzing the effects of such factors as black neoconservatism, welfare reform, the Million Man March, the mainstreaming of hip-hop culture, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Marable's work, brought into the present, remains one of the most dramatic, well-conceived, and provocative histories of the struggle for African American civil rights and equality. Through the 1950s and 1960s, Marable follows the emergence of a powerful black working class, the successful effort to abolish racial segregation, the outbreak of Black Power, urban rebellion, and the renaissance of Black Nationalism. He explores the increased participation of blacks and other ethnic groups in governmental systems and the white reaction during the period he terms the Second Reconstruction. Race, Reform, and Rebellion illustrates how poverty, illegal drugs, unemployment, and a deteriorating urban infrastructure hammered the African American community in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• 1. Prologue: The Legacy of the First Reconstruction
• 2. The Cold War in Black America, 1945–1954
• 3. The Demand for Reform, 1954–1960
• 4. We Shall Overcome, 1960–1965
• 5. Black Power, 1965–1970
• 6. Black Rebellion: Zenith and Decline, 1970–1976
• 7. From Protest to Politics: The Retreat of the Second Reconstruction, 1976–1982
• 8. Reaction: Black Society and Politics during Reagan Conservatism, 1982–1990
• 9. Into the Wilderness: The Twilight of the Second Reconstruction, 1990–2001
• 10. The New Racial Domain: The Politics of Racial Inequality, 2001–2006
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author