Blackballed : the Black vote and US democracy

Title
  1. Blackballed : the Black vote and US democracy / Darryl Pinckney.
Published by
  1. New York : New York Review Books, 2020.
  2. ©2020
Author
  1. Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-

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Description
  1. xi, 128 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement to Barack Obama's two presidential campaigns. Drawing on the work of scholars, the memoirs of civil rights workers, and the speeches and writings of black leaders like Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael, Andrew Young and John Lewis, Pinckney traces the disagreements among blacks about the best strategies for achieving equality in American society as well as the ways in which they gradually came to create the Democratic voting bloc that contributed to the election of the first black president. Interspersed through the narrative are Pinckney's own memories of growing up during the civil rights era and the reactions of his parents to the changes taking place in American society. He concludes with an examination of ongoing efforts by Republicans to suppress the black vote, with particular attention to the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Also included here is Pinckney's essay "What Black Means Now," on the history of the black middle class, stereotypes about blacks and crime, and contemporary debates about "post-blackness," as well as a new essay, "Buck Moon in Harlem," which reflects on Juneteenth and the ongoing fight for racial justice, and offers a glimpse of New York City amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd"--Back cover
Subject
  1. Pinckney, Darryl, 1953- > Childhood and youth
  2. Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-
  3. United States. > Interpretation and construction
  4. Voting Rights Act of 1965 (United States)
  5. 2000-2099
  6. 1965-2099
  7. African Americans > Suffrage > History
  8. African Americans > Politics and government
  9. African Americans > Civil rights > History
  10. African Americans > Race identity > History > 21st century
  11. African Americans > Civil rights
  12. African Americans > Race identity
  13. African Americans > Suffrage
  14. Race relations > Political aspects
  15. African Americans
  16. United States > Race relations > Political aspects
  17. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. Blackballed: the Black vote and US democracy -- What Black means now -- Buck Moon in Harlem
Call number
  1. Sc D 23-73
Note
  1. "With a new essay"--Cover
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
  1. Pinckney, Darryl, 1953- author.
Title
  1. Blackballed : the Black vote and US democracy / Darryl Pinckney.
Publisher
  1. New York : New York Review Books, 2020.
Copyright date
  1. ©2020
Edition
  1. Paperback edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological term
  1. 2000-2099
Local subject
  1. Black author.
Chronological term
  1. 1965-2099
ISBN
  1. 1681375591 (paperback)
  2. 9781681375595 (paperback)
  3. 9781681375601 (electronic book)
  4. 1681375605 (electronic book)
Research call number
  1. Sc D 23-73
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