Can I read White Ethics and Black Power : The Emergence of the West Side Organization on EtoBox?

White Ethics and Black Power : The Emergence of the West Side Organization by William W. Ellis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is White Ethics and Black Power : The Emergence of the West Side Organization about?

The disparity between the ideal, a democratic America, and the reality, racial oppression and poverty, is so great that serious voices among blacks, students, and others challenged the ethical foundations of the nation in the 1960s. Local political organizations emerging out of black ghettos led a black revolt, asserting a revolutionary black nationalism rather than social reform and integration. For those blacks, white America could no longer dictate right and wrong, and certainly could no longer tell blacks how best to pursue their goals. This feeling was so strong among the adherents of the new militant movements formed under the political symbolism of "black power" that they questioned all white ethical institutions. These new movements bargained and contended with whites, even worked closely with them for many purposes, but always with suspicion and caution. White Ethics and Black Power describes racial relations during this period. It examines the careers and philosophies of the leadership of a community organization, illuminating the complex relationship between white America and the new black power movements, between America and its interpretation of itself on the one hand,

Who reads White Ethics and Black Power : The Emergence of the West Side Organization?

Author

William W. Ellis

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351299190

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, History