Black politics and the neoliberal racial order

• Autores: Michael C. Dawson, Megan Ming Francis
• Localización: Public culture, ISSN-e 1527-8018, Vol. 28, Nº. 1 (Issue 78), 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We are at a critical moment in the history of race in the United States. The years 2013–15 mark the fiftieth anniversaries of some of the most important milestones in the civil rights movement. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his stirring “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the most sweeping piece of civil rights legislation into law in July 1964. And in 1965 Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which explicitly forbade voter disenfranchisement measures and opened the pathway for a generation of black people to vote for the first time in their lives. These historic events were the culmination of decades of struggle by many women and men who often risked their lives for freedom and justice. But even when a process of struggle seems to culminate in a series of transformative events, realities on the ground are often a reminder that significant social change is complicated and slow moving. Indeed, during the one hundred years between the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington, progress was made, but African Americans still faced a deeply divided America: one in which a war was being waged to preserve Jim Crow