The Next Civil Rights Movement?
The Black Lives Matter movement’s appeal to human rights has deep roots in the history of the black freedom struggle.
Fall 2024
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The Rise of Respectability Politics
What started as a philosophy promulgated by black elites to “uplift the race” by correcting the “bad” traits of the black poor has evolved into one of the hallmarks of black politics in the age of Obama. In an era marked by rising inequality and declining economic mobility for most Americans—but particularly for black Americans—the politics of respectability works to accommodate neoliberalism.
