Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope – A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
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Name: Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope – A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Format: epub
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Title: Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope
Author: Brandon M. Terry
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674271289
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Description:
A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation.
We are all familiar with the romantic vision of the civil rights movement: a moment when heroic African Americans and their allies triumphed over racial oppression through courageous protest, forging a new consensus in American life and law. But what are the effects of this celebratory storytelling? What happens when a living revolt against injustice becomes an embalmed museum piece?
In this innovative work, Brandon Terry develops a novel theory of interpretation to show how competing accounts of the civil rights movement circulate through politics and political philosophy. The dominant narrative is romantic. This "arc of justice" narrative is found in popular histories, the speeches of Barack Obama, and even the writings of the liberal philosopher…
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