Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement - Tapa dura

Polsgrove, Carol

 
9780393020137: Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN 10: 0393020134 ISBN 13: 9780393020137
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2001

Sinopsis

A startling portrait of a generation of intellectuals who responded to the civil rights movement with peculiar ambivalence. No other movement in the twentieth century posed a starker moral challenge to the American intellectual tradition than that of civil rights. And yet the response of prominent writers and thinkers was surprisingly hesitant and ambivalent. William Faulkner spoke out for desegregation but, worried about violence, asked the North to "go slow." Richard Wright and W. E. B. Du Bois, marginalized by their radicalism, had difficulty being heard, while editors sought out the more moderate voices of C. Vann Woodward and Robert Penn Warren. Other, less patient voices did struggle to emerge, as Lillian Smith, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, Howard Zinn, and James Silver put themselves at personal and political risk to air their views. But it was James Baldwin who threw down a gauntlet to other intellectuals in his brilliant and revolutionary The Fire Next Time. Here is a fascinating, untold history of our nation's most important moment, one rife with unaccountable bravery and inexplicable timidityboth often the products of the same divided minds.

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No movement in the 20th century posed such a stark moral challenge to American intellectuals as that of civil rights. Yet the response of prominent writers and thinkers was hesitant and ambivalent. William Faulkner spoke out for desegregation but asked the North to "go slow". Richard Wright and W.E.B. Du Bois had difficulty being heard while editors sought out more moderate voices. Other less patient voices struggled to emerge and put themselves at risk to air their views but it was James Baldwin who threw down a gauntlet to other intellectuals in his brilliant and revolutionary "The Fire Next Time". This text tells the history of the civil rights movement, full of stories of unaccountable bravery and inexplicable timidity - often the products of the same divided minds.

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393020134
ISBN 13 
9780393020137
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
320
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