Narratives of Civil Rights Movement
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- Narratives of Civil Rights Movement
- "Master" Narrative
- Julian Bond created the term/definition
- Covers mid-1950s - mid 1960's
- Southern Movement achieved major legislative victories in form of Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act and moved country closer to democracy
- But movement declined when activists brought Non-violent protest tactics to North
- There it encountered riotous African Americans, black power activists and white backlash.
- But movement declined when activists brought Non-violent protest tactics to North
- Essentially built on a series of dichotomics
- North Vs South
- These overlook a far more complex, wide-ranging story.
- Racial Intergration Vs Black Power
- Nonviolent Pacifism Vs Self Defense and Violence
- Limit movement to one decade
- Events take place entirely in South and Washington
- Rest of country and events merely background props
- These overlook a far more complex, wide-ranging story.
- Racial Intergration Vs Black Power
- Nonviolent Pacifism Vs Self Defense and Violence
- The 'Good Early 1960's Vs the 'bad late 1960's'
- These overlook a far more complex, wide-ranging story.
- Limit movement to one decade
- Events take place entirely in South and Washington
- Rest of country and events merely background props
- These overlook a far more complex, wide-ranging story.
- North Vs South
- Frameworks that challenge "Master" Narrative
- "Freedom North" Paradigm
- Expands the geographic scope of civil rights movements
- Movement did not move South to North, was ALREADY THERE.
- Civil Right action in North occured before, during and after South movement.
- "Long Civil Rights Movement"
- Expands movement history to before 1954 and beyond 1965
- Expanded chronology locates civil rights movement origins in earlier periods and it includes radical and conservative forms of activism.
- Reveals a history of struggle against American racism unfolded over several decades, not merely one, and was marked by moments of continuity and change.
- Wave of national activism that flourished in late 1950s and 60s was an extension of earlier phases of antiracist activism
- "Black Power Studies"
- Paradigm challenges a dichotomous (divided) seperation of civil rights movement from black power movement history
- New histories of Black Power movement have rejected representations that frame it solely as a denunciation of interracial organizations and nonviolence.
- Go beyond chronologies that orient black power movement's origins in mid to late 1960's and geographical frameworks of only being cities outside of the South.
- Argues Black Power was southern & northern, cultural, political and economic, revolutionary and conservative, local and national and international, feminist and intergenerational.
- The movement's organizing took many different economic, intellectual, cultural, artistic, gendered and political forms
- "Freedom North" Paradigm
- Revisionist Work
- William Chafe
- 1980's 'Civilities of Civil Rights'
- Paved the way for local studies of the long black freedom movement that offered new interpretations of movements leadership.
- 1980's 'Civilities of Civil Rights'
- Histories of Black Freedom movement in South West and Transnational Studies
- Further expanded geographical scope
- Revisionist approaches ploace civl rights movements within broader understandings of post WWII US and even global history
- William Chafe
- 1980's 'Civilities of Civil Rights'
- Paved the way for local studies of the long black freedom movement that offered new interpretations of movements leadership.
- 1980's 'Civilities of Civil Rights'
- Critiqued for losing sight of national synthesis narrative in favour of countless local studies
- Also for blurring lines between civil rights and black power
- William Chafe
- Revisionist approaches ploace civl rights movements within broader understandings of post WWII US and even global history
- Critiqued for losing sight of national synthesis narrative in favour of countless local studies
- Also for blurring lines between civil rights and black power
- Critiqued for losing sight of national synthesis narrative in favour of countless local studies
- Brian Purnell (Text) contributes to new emerging synthesis of postwar US History with a narrative analysis of interracial civil rights activism in one of the largest, most iconic post war cities
- William Chafe
- "Master" Narrative
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