The Cold War in Black America, 1945–1954

Marable, Manning

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-17657-1_2

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“…As early as 1984, Manning Marable claimed that the Cold War "had a devastating effect upon the cause of blacks' civil rights and civil liberties," and had the Cold War not occurred, the "democratic upsurge of black people which characterized the late 1950s could have happened ten years earlier." 36 Marable's counterfactual claim is a bit far-fetched. A number of scholars have taken a more measured approach, arguing that the Cold War and the accompanying Red Scare narrowed the parameters of dissent by taking issues of economic justice, human rights, and peace off the table in exchange for piecemeal progress on civil rights.…”

Section: The Riverside Speech and The Long Civil Rights Movementmentioning

confidence: 95%

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Riverside Speech and Cold War Civil Rights

Lucks¹

2015

Peace & Change

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This article examines Martin Luther King, Jr.'s controversial Riverside Speech where he denounced the Vietnam War. Although King's biographers and other scholars have written about the Riverside speech, they have not analyzed King's Riverside speech through the prism of Cold War Civil Rights. This examination of King's Riverside speech remedies this omission by explaining why King waited so long to speak out against the war, and why civil rights activists as late as 1967 were still wary about criticizing American Cold War foreign policy because of the legacy of the Red Scare. While the Cold War helped spur civil rights advances, this article demonstrates that the civil rights movement was a casualty of the Vietnam War.

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Section: The Riverside Speech and The Long Civil Rights Movementmentioning

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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Riverside Speech and Cold War Civil Rights

Lucks¹

2015

Peace & Change

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“…Based on the systemic racism, racial threat, and competition arguments, we expect to find evidence supportive of Protesting While Black, evidence that will be robust across historical time, given the enduring nature of American racism. At the same time, we believe that the historical record shows that African American protest events changed dramatically from 1960 to 1990, with respect to the substantive issues concerning African Americans (Marable 1991) and how the state viewed African American claims-making (Goldstein 1978). We conduct additional analyses designed to look at any over-time changes in the differences between the policing of African American and white protest events.…”

Section: African American Threat and Police Responsementioning

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Protesting While Black?

2011

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How does the race of protesters affect how police respond to protest events? Drawing on the protest policing literature and on theories of race and ethnic relations, we explore the idea that police view African American protesters as especially threatening and that this threat leads to a greater probability of policing. We examine more than 15,000 protest events that took place in the United States between 1960 and 1990 and find that in many years, African American protest events are more likely than white protest events to draw police presence and that once at events, police are more likely to take action at African American protest events. Additional analyses complicate these findings by showing that they vary over time. In many years, for example, African American protest events are no more likely than white protest events to be policed. While there is support for a “Protesting While Black” phenomenon, it is not invariant across the entire period of inquiry.

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“…To suggest the notion of White Reconstruction as a counter-periodization is to amplify the relative symbiosis between what Clyde Woods (2012) calls the “resilient relations” of densely structured, long historical racist violences and the undeniable social–cultural shifts in the racial–social text that have transpired since the 1960s. It is in such historical periods as the “post-civil rights” half century that racism’s operational logics are momentarily displaced from their sturdy and readily identifiable housing in official (Marable, 1984) state apparatuses—for example, formal segregation and apartheid/colonial juridical orders—and remobilized, reconfigured, and rearticulated via other means, rhetorics, and institutional strategies. The remainder of this article points to the archive/archiving of White Reconstruction as an opportunity to understand how such reconfigurations are imagined and acted upon through the overlapping schemas of racial statecraft, governance, and biography, and how such continuities of white supremacy and racial violence thrive in close relation to what I have called post-raciality.…”

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Goldwater’s left hand: Post-raciality and the roots of the post-racial racist state

Rodríguez

2014

Cultural Dynamics

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Post-racial discourse rests on the allegation of a particular undoing to which we must urgently attend. There is almost nothing empirically credible about this pseudo-historical narrative structure, yet as a (growing) field of knowledge production, the post-racial discursive regime is no less formidable and far-ranging. Perhaps most importantly, it has attempted to reconstitute (and has undeniably already altered) some of the operative truth assumptions of racial discourse writ large: as a teleological marking, post-racialism minimally posits that the long modern era’s reliance on various iterations of racial power/violence—from modalities of human classification to strategies of mass geographic containment and social liquidation—has yielded to other forms of social ordering, which are no longer centrally premised on this particular form of human differentiation and brutal hierarchy.

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The Cold War in Black America, 1945–1954

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Riverside Speech and Cold War Civil Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Riverside Speech and Cold War Civil Rights

Protesting While Black?

Goldwater’s left hand: Post-raciality and the roots of the post-racial racist state

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