Black Liberation in Conservative America

by Marable, Manning

• ISBN13: 9780896085596
• ISBN10: 0896085597
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: South End Pr

Summary

A bold new collection of essays by one of America's most prominent scholar/activists, Black Liberation in Conservative America defines the crises and challenges confronting black America on the eve of the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction Rethinking Black Liberation: Past, Present, and Future	3	(18)
Section One INEQUALITY AND PUBLIC POLICY
Restating the Problem: Race and Inequality	21	(2)
Class Polarization and the National Insurance Scandal	23	(6)
Economic Anxiety and Self-Reliance	29	(2)
Fighting for a Living Wage	31	(3)
Law and Liberation---Haywood Burns and Shanara Gilbert	34	(2)
Lesbians, Gay Men, and Inequality	36	(7)
Prisons, Profits, and Inequality	43	(4)
Class Warfare in America	47	(8)
Section Two STRONG BLACK WOMEN
Violence Against African-American Women	55	(3)
Black Women in Politics	58	(2)
The Lynching of Lani Guinier	60	(2)
In Defense of Angela Davis	62	(3)
Kendra Alexander, Freedom Fighter	65	(2)
Rethinking the Abortion Debate	67	(6)
Section Three EDUCATION AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH
A Message to Black Youth	73	(2)
Youth Violence and Gangsta Rap	75	(2)
Minority Scholarships and Higher Education	77	(2)
Racism On College Campuses	79	(3)
Equal Access to Higher Education---The Case of Mississippi	82	(2)
Jim Crow and the Brown Decision Revisited	84	(5)
Rich Schools versus Poor Schools	89	(1)
New Directions in Black Public Schools	90	(4)
Diversity and Democracy in Higher Education	94	(16)
Young, Gifted, and Black---The Promise of Black Youth	110	(7)
Section Four THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK---CONSERVATISM AND RACISM IN THE 1990s
Why Voters Are Angry	117	(2)
Playing the Race Card	119	(2)
The Politics of Hate	121	(6)
Free Trade or Class Warfare	127	(2)
What Clinton Owed Us---And Why He Didn't Pay Up	129	(7)
Clinton's Economic Agenda	136	(4)
Oklahoma and the Specter of Terrorism	140	(3)
The Third Wave of Reaction	143	(4)
Breaking the Two-Party System	147	(2)
Bottom-Up Democracy	149	(2)
Presidential Politics, Race, and the 1996 Election: Beyond Liberalism	151	(8)
Section Five RACE AND REVOLUTION---TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Apartheid in Transition	159	(10)
Farrakhan's World Tour---The Issue of Nigeria	169	(2)
Race and Revolution in Cuba	171	(5)
The New International Racism	176	(9)
Section Six THE NEW RACISM
What is ``Race''?	185	(2)
Why the Churches Burn	187	(2)
The Etiquette of Racial Prejudice	189	(2)
Why Integration Has Failed	191	(3)
Two Kinds of Blackness	194	(2)
The Color of Prejudice	196	(2)
The Chasm of Race	198	(3)
Black Racial Fundamentalism	201	(2)
An American Dilemma	203	(6)
Section Seven BLACK EMPOWERMENT
Black Heritage and Resistance	209	(2)
Remembering Martin	211	(2)
Black Liberation---Where Do We Go from Here?	213	(6)
The Vision of Harold Washington	219	(2)
Mike Tyson versus the Morals of Our Movement	221	(3)
Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal	224	(2)
Racial Stereotypes of Black Culture	226	(2)
The Politics of Black Awareness	228	(2)
Wilkins versus Steele---Black Intellectuals in Conflict	230	(3)
Should Farrakhan Be Allowed to Speak?	233	(6)
Environmental Justice	239	(5)
Wanted---A New Black Power Movement	244	(7)
Section Eight MULTICULTURAL AMERICA
Why Conservatives Fear Multiculturalism	251	(4)
Building Latino-Black Unity	255	(3)
America in Search of Itself	258	(2)
The Retreat from Equality	260	(2)
Affirmative Action for Whites?	262	(3)
Full Employment and Affirmative Action	265	(10)
Conclusion THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATION
What Is Freedom?	271	(2)
From Freedom to Equality	273	(2)
Index	275