Invisible Enemy outlines how 'colorblind' approaches to discrimination ensured the perpetuation of racial inequality in the United States after the 1960s, and how this in turn necessitated further struggles on behalf of black rights in the post-civil rights era. The book examines the hidden forms of racism that survived beyond the 1960s, highlighting their impact on black Americans as well as on American politics and society as a whole. It describes the various forms of black activism--ignored in many histories of the freedom struggle-- that continued at both national and local levels. The final chapter conceptualizes the post-1960s freedom movement as part of a global struggle for justice inresponse to the spread of free market capitalism around the world in the latetwentieth century. In an approach that aims to deepen readers' awareness of the nature of the nation's racial problems, de Jong emphasizes that racism mustbe understood historically, as the product of specific laws and policies thatensured an unequal status for African Americans. Invisible Enemy illuminates the complexities of modern racism and enhances our understanding of the struggles for racial equality and social justice.Greta de Jong is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on the connections between race and class and the ways that African Americans have fought for economic as well as political rights from the end of slavery through the twenty-first century. She is the author of A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 19001970 (2002).
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6717-8
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 26/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés