Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19988905 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Zeigler (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University Press of Mississippi (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14325/mississippi/9781496802385.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4302416465 |
| Open Library | OL29708678M |
| ISBN | 9781496802385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
A cultural rhetoric study of how the discourse of anticommunism has influenced the politics of race in the United States, this book observes that the Cold War Red Scare contributed to the end of state-sanctioned racial segregation in the American South but provided for the survival of systemic anti-black racism after the supposed death of Jim Crow. Describing the relationship between the Second Red Scare and the African American civil rights movement as a pernicious ambivalence that ultimately harmed the black freedom struggle, it demonstrates how the discourse of Cold War anticommunism worked to render U.S. public culture oblivious to the fundamental convergence of racial discrimination and class exploitation. The Cold War may have been an asset to demands for equal political recognition for all American citizens regardless of race, but the anticommunist public culture labeled any critique of capitalism as un-American. Consequently, the postwar Red Scare impeded black American claims for socioeconomic reparations that were necessary to realize the aspirations of the civil rights movement and to satisfy democratic principles of social justice. While presenting a reconstruction of the normative rhetorical power of Cold War anticommunism, the book also examines how intellectuals working in a tradition of black radicalism informed by Marxism engaged critically with the culture of Cold War America to show how anti-racist political initiatives would only succeed finally to nullify white privilege if they were informed by anti-capitalist convictions and activism
Black Power · Democracy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Rhetorical question · Sociology · White supremacy · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 1945-1989 · African americans · Anti-communist movements · Antikommunismus · Bürgerrechtsbewegung · History · Ost-West-Konflikt · Political aspects · politics and government · race relations · Rassismus · Rhetorik · Schwarze · united states
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |