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Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America (American History and Culture) - Hardcover

Buch 8 von 10: American History and Culture

Mumford, Kevin

 
9780814757178: Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America (American History and Culture)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0814757170 ISBN 13: 9780814757178
Verlag: NYU Press - IPS, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts this important city's place in the nation, from its founding in 1666 by a dissident Puritan as a refuge from intolerance, through the days of Jim Crow and World War II civil rights activism, to the height of postwar integration and the election of its first black mayor.
In this broad and balanced history of Newark, Kevin Mumford applies the concept of the public sphere to the problem of race relations, demonstrating how political ideas and print culture were instrumental in shaping African American consciousness. He draws on both public and personal archives, interpreting official documents - such as newspapers, commission testimony, and government records-alongside interviews, political flyers, meeting minutes, and rare photos.
From the migration out of the South to the rise of public housing and ethnic conflict, Newark explains the impact of African Americans on the reconstruction of American cities in the twentieth century.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kevin Mumford is Associate Professor of History and African American studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century.

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Verlag
NYU Press - IPS
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814757170
ISBN 13 
9780814757178
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
324
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