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Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Laurie B. Green
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Paperback. African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation. Exploring the notion of "freedom" in postwar Memphis, this title demonstrates that the interplay of politics, culture, and consciousness is critical to truly understanding freedom and the black struggle for it. Series: John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Num Pages: 400 pages, 27 illustrations, 3 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JJPK; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of ""freedom"" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing ""plantation mentality"" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before - and even after - the groundbreaking legislation of ... Read more
African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of ""freedom"" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing ""plantation mentality"" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before - and even after - the groundbreaking legislation of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807858028
SKU
V9780807858028
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About Laurie B. Green
LAURIE B. GREEN is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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