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Shattered dreams, infinite hope : a tragic vision of the civil rights movement /

"The romantic vision of the civil rights movement is exhausted, and its inverse, Afro-Pessimism, offers a self-defeating irony. To resolve this impasse, Brandon Terry transforms the standard story of America's democratic awakening through a tragic reading of the civil rights movement: as a...

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Main Author: Terry, Brandon M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Civil rights movements > United States.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > Political aspects > United States.
Civil rights > Philosophy.
Civil rights movements > United States > Historiography.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mémoire collective > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Droits de l'homme > Législation > Philosophie.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Historiographie.
HISTORY / United States / General.
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights > Philosophy
Civil rights movements > Historiography
Civil rights movements
Collective memory
United States
1900-1999

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