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ISBN-10: 150363003X
ISBN-13: 9781503630031
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publish Date: 01/18/2022
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 5.90" W, 0.80" H

Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement

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In Black Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, The slave went free; stood for a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. His words echo across the decades as the civil rights revolution, marked by the passage of landmark civil rights laws in the ’60s, has seen those gains steadily and systematically whittled away. As history testifies, revolution nearly always triggers its antithesis: counterrevolution. In this book Steinberg provides an analysis of this backlash, tracing the reverse flow of history that has led to the current national reckoning on race.

Steinberg puts counterrevolution into historical and theoretical perspective, exploring the victim-blaming and colorblind discourses that emerged in the post-segregation era and undermined progress toward racial equality, and led to the gutting of affirmative action. This book reflects Steinberg’s long career as a critical race scholar, culminating with his assessment of our current moment and the possibilities for political transformation.

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In this book, Stephen Steinberg concludes his incisive meditation on the race relations paradigm, the discipline of sociology, and what he now calls the 'frontlash' of the contemporary surge of the U.S. toward a revanchist anti-Black society. Steinberg accomplishes the rare feat of producing a third volume of a trilogy–Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy and Race Relations: A Critique–that raises the project to dazzling new heights. He does this by illuminating the depths to which contemporary U.S. racial ideology and policy have plummeted. At the core of Steinberg's analysis, he resurrects the unrealized possibilities of affirmative action to power a third Reconstruction by tracing its birth, murder, death, and transmutation into diversity.–Sundiata Cha-Jua "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,"
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ISBN-10: 150363003X
ISBN-13: 9781503630031
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publish Date: 01/18/2022
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 5.90" W, 0.80" H
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