African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

ISBN-10:
157607837X
ISBN-13:
9781576078372
Pub. Date:
07/28/2003
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
157607837X
ISBN-13:
9781576078372
Pub. Date:
07/28/2003
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

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Overview

This handbook provides a thorough treatment of the various mechanisms African Americans have used to participate in U.S. political affairs from the colonial era to the present.

With contributions by several of the field's experts, this concise, provocative volume explores the evolution and current status of African American political action. Focusing on distinct types of activity (protest politics, grassroots movements, electoral politics, political office holding), it charts the unique development of African Americans as they progressed from enslavement by whites to empowerment as citizens to an ever-growing influence on elections.

As the book vividly demonstrates, African Americans' efforts to act on their own political behalf didn't begin in the 1960s. Even while enslaved, black people courageously launched petitions, instigated strikes on plantations, and staged full-blown revolts, creating a legacy of activism that expanded through the abolition movement, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the post-World War II civil rights movement, and into the present.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781576078372
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/28/2003
Series: Political Participation in America
Pages: 424
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Minion K. C. Morrison is professor of political science at the University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO.
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