The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19917465 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Darda (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781503630932 |
| OpenAlex | W4220684481 |
| ISBN | 9781503630932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism , he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock
Civil rights · Faith · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Theology · Wright · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |