{"product_id":"reluctant-reformers-racism-and-social-reform-movements-in-the-united-states-paperback","title":"Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert L. Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChude Pamela Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJamelle Bouie\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReluctant Reformers\u003c\/em\u003e explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major democratic and social justice movements between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II. It focuses in particular on the abolitionists, the Populist Party, the Progressive reformers, and the women's suffrage, labor, and socialist and communist movements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDespite their achievements, virtually all these predominantly white movements failed to oppose, capitulated to, or even advocated racism at critical junctures in their history, with their efforts undercut by their inability to build and sustain a mass movement of both Black and white Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReluctant Reformers\u003c\/em\u003e examines both the structural roots of racism in US radical movements and the impact of racist ideologies on the white-dominated core of each movement, how some whites resisted these pressures, and how Black people engaged with these movements. This edition includes a postscript describing the Black freedom movement of the 1960s and the central role it has played in the development of today's radical social justice movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert L. Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and previously taught at Mills College and San Jose State University. He is author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Awakening in Capitalist America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Port Chicago Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e and numerous articles and books on race and ethnicity. He was editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Black Scholar\u003c\/em\u003e journal and vice president of the Black World Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChude Pamela Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e is on the Board of Directors of the Civil Rights Movement Archive, crmvet.org. She was editor of Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality's newspaper, \u003cem\u003eUNION WAGE\u003c\/em\u003e, and is author of \u003cem\u003eFree Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women's Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e. She was featured in the films \u003cem\u003eFreedom on My Mind\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShe's Beautiful When She's Angry\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 356\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.38 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698707632191,"sku":"9781682192788","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cbd340619dcddeb3313eeb693759a504.webp?v=1765011104","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/reluctant-reformers-racism-and-social-reform-movements-in-the-united-states-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}