Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement

Name: Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and local struggles for racial equality, and prompted a white response to the civil rights movement that set the stage for the neoliberal turn in US policy. Randolph Hohle questions some of the most basic assumptions about the civil rights movement, including the importance of non-violence, and the movement\u2019s legacy on contemporary black politics. Non-violence was the effect of the movement\u2019s emphasis on racially non-threatening good black citizens that, when contrasted to bad white responses of southern whites, severed the relationship between whiteness and good citizenship. Although the civil rights movement secured new legislative gains and influenced all subsequent social movements, pressure to be good black citizens and the subsequent marginalization of black authenticity have interna.