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Race Man

Selected Works, 1960-2015

Michael G. Long (Herausgeber)

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2020
City Lights Books (Verlag)
978-0-87286-794-9 (ISBN)
22,80 inkl. MwSt
An inspiring, historic collection of writings from one of America’s most important civil rights leaders.
Newsweek, Lit Hub, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution pick Race Man by Julian Bond as one of their Most-Anticipated Books of 2020!

"This compilation of works by social activist and civil rights leader Julian Bond should be required reading in 2020."—Juliana Rose Pignataro, Newsweek

"Bond's essays, speeches and interviews were powerful weapons in his lifelong fight for civil rights."—The New York Times

"Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life. Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that."—President Barack Obama

An inspiring, historic collection of writings from one of America's most important civil rights leaders.

No one in the United States did more to advance the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. than Julian Bond. Race Man—a collection of his speeches, articles, interviews, and letters—constitutes an unrivaled history of the life and times of one of America’s most trusted freedom fighters, offering unfiltered access to his prophetic voice on a wide variety of social issues, including police brutality, abortion, and same-sex marriage.

A man who broke race barriers and set precedents throughout his life in politics; co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center and long-time chair of the NAACP; Julian Bond was a leader and a visionary who built bridges between the black civil rights movement and other freedom movements—especially for LGBTQ and women's rights. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, there is no better time to return to Bond's works and words, many of them published here for the first time.

"Endlessly grateful for this collection of work that shows the expansive nature of Julian Bond's ideas of black liberation, and how those ideas are woven into the fabric of both resistance and uplift. Race Man is the map of a journey that was not only struggle and not only triumph."—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays

"Race Man is the essential collection of Julian Bond's wisdom—and required reading for the organizers and leaders who follow in his footsteps today."—Marian Wright Edelman, President Emerita, Children's Defense Fund

"Race Man is a staggering collection that offers a genealogy of Bond's freedom-oriented politics and soul work as captured in his written words. Race Man is a book that looks back and speaks forward. It is a timely example of what movement building can look like when servant leaders refuse to leave the most vulnerable out of their visions for Black freedom. We need that reminder, like never before, today."—Darnell L. Moore, author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America

" [An] essential volume that will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in the civil rights movement and human rights overall . . ."—Library Journal, Starred Review

"Bond's years as an activist also offer a guide through the intellectual and political history of the left in the second half of the 20th century . . . Bond's essays capture the intellectual world that inspired him and that he helped inspire in turn."—Robert Greene II, The Nation

Horace Julian Bond was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor and writer. In 1960, while attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Bond was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, leading student protests against segregation. A founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, he served as its president in the 1970s while sitting in the Georgia House of Representatives. In 1968, Bond led a challenge delegation from Georgia to the Democratic National Congress, where he became the first African American and the youngest person to ever be nominated for Vice President of the United States, though he was ineligible due to his young age. In 1975, after ten years in the Georgia House, he served six terms in the Georgia senate, after which he taught at numerous colleges including Drexel and Harvard. In 1998, Bond was elected Board Chairman of the NAACP and, after his term, remained active as Chairman Emeritus for eleven years. He is the author of A Time To Speak, A Time To Act, a collection of his essays, as well as Black Candidates: Southern Campaign Experiences. His writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. He remained President Emeritus of the Southern Poverty Law Center until his death in 2015.  Michael G. Long is the author or editor of numerous books on civil rights, religion, and politics, including We the Resistance: Documenting A History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States; Race Man: Selected Works of Julian Bond; I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters; Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall; and First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson. Long has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, ESPN’s The Undefeated, and USA Today, and his work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, and many others. Long has spoken at Fenway Park, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives, and he has appeared on MSNBC, PBS, C-SPAN, and National Public Radio.

Prefaces



The Love Endures by Pamela Horowitz



Practicing Dissent by Jeanne Theoharis        



Editor’s Introduction



 



CHAPTER ONE



The Atlanta Student Movement and SNCC



The Fuel of My Civil Rights Fire



The Conversation That Started It All



A Student Voice



Let Freedom Ring



Lonnie King Is Acid Victim



The Murder of Louis Allen



SNCC and JFK



Freedom Summer: What We Are Seeking



How to Remember the Atlanta Student Movement



SNCC: Alienated, Paranoid, and Near Collapse



SNCC’s Legacy



 



CHAPTER TWO



Vietnam and the Politics of Dissent



The Right to Dissent



I Consider Myself a Pacifist



Martin Luther King, Jr. and Vietnam



Elijah Muhammad and the 1968 Democratic National Convention



Eugene McCarthy and a New Politics



The Warfare State



Fighting Nixon



Rethinking Violence in America



Angela Davis Is a Political Prisoner



The Failure of Kent State



Lessons from Vietnam



 



CHAPTER THREE



Two Black Colonies



The Population Bomb as Justification for Genocide



Escaping from Colonialism



The United States Is a Colonial Society



Liberation in Angola and Alabama



South Africa: The Cancer on the African Continent



 



CHAPTER FOUR



Nixon and the Death of Youthful Protest



Nixon’s Black Supporters Should Shuffle Off



Uncle Strom’s Cabin: The Reelection of Richard Nixon



The New Civil Rights Movement



Nixon’s Racist Justification of Watergate



George Wallace Still Champion of the Politics of Race



Blacks and Jews



Why No Riots?



The Death of Youthful Protest



Politics Matters



 



CHAPTER FIVE



Uncle Jimmy’s Cabin



Carter Hides His Red Neck



Election 76—A Political Diary



Why I Can’t Support Jimmy Carter



SNCC Reunites, Carter Is Absent



Blacks Are Politically Impotent



Griffin Bell and the Right to Dissent



Blacks and Moral Suicide



Carter Ignores Blacks



Political Prisoners in the United States



Carter’s Misguided Fight Against Inflation



 



CHAPTER SIX



Civil Rights Milestones



 



Fannie Lou Hamer: Lady in a Homespun Dress



The Civil Rights Movement: The Beginning and the End



The Racial Tide Has Turned Against Us



King: Again a Victim



The 25th Anniversary of Brown: Time to Do for Ourselves





E. B. Du Bois and John F. Kennedy—Which Is Greater?



Roy Wilkins: A Reasonable Man



 



CHAPTER SEVEN



Our Long National Nightmare:



Reagan, Bush, and the Assault on Women



Reagan and South Africa



A New Social Darwinism: The Survival of the Richest



Reagan’s Justice



My Father and the Death Penalty



Nicaragua and Paranoia



The Break that Never Healed: John Lewis’s Painful Criticism



Operation Rescue Is No Civil Rights Movement



A Kinder, Gentler Nation?



My Case Against Clarence Thomas



The Need for More Civil Rights Laws



In Defense of the NAACP



Dear Michael: Advice for Running for Office



 



CHAPTER EIGHT



The Measure of Men and Racism:



Jefferson and King, Clinton and Dole, Farrakhan and Simpson



The Most Useful Founding Father



Remembering All of Dr. King



Bill Clinton and Hope for America



Failures: Gingrich and Dole



Clinton Against Dole



Gangsta Rap



Louis Farrakhan Is a Black David Duke



The Unsurprising Acquittal of O. J. Simpson



King Supported Affirmative Action



King and the Death Penalty



 



CHAPTER NINE



The George W. Bush Years:



The War on Terror and the Fight for



Poor Blacks, Women, and LGBT Rights



Racial Injustice in the Criminal Justice System



Social Security and African Americans



September 11 and Beyond



Slavery and Terrorism



Our Leaders Are Wrong About the War



The NAACP and the Right to Reproductive Freedom



Are Gay Rights Civil Rights?



AIDS Is a Major Civil Rights Issue



Why I Will March for LGBT Rights



In Katrina’s Wake



We Must Persevere



 



CHAPTER TEN



Barack Obama and Ongoing Bigotry



Civil Rights: Now and Then



What Barack Obama Means



Homophobia and Black America



Same-Sex Marriage: More than a White Issue



Religion-Based Exemptions Discriminate Against LGBT People



The Civil War and the Confederate Flag



Voting Rights: Which Side Are You On?



Voting Rights Again: The Most Pressing Domestic Issue Today



We All Must Protest



Our Journey Is Nowhere Near Over



 



Afterword by Douglas Brinkley



Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum
Nachwort Douglas Brinkley
Vorwort Pamela Horowitz, Jeanne Theoharis
Zusatzinfo 20 B&W photographs
Verlagsort Monroe, OR
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-87286-794-3 / 0872867943
ISBN-13 978-0-87286-794-9 / 9780872867949
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