African Americans in Conservative Movements The Inescapability of Race /

• Main Author: Prisock, Louis G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethnicity.; Political sociology.; Religion and sociology.; Culture.; United States-Politics and government.; Religion and politics.; Ethnicity Studies.; Political Sociology.; Sociology of Religion.; Sociology of Culture.; US Politics.; Politics and Religion.

Providing an expansive view of the making and meaning of African American conservatism, this volume examines the phenomenon in four spheres: the political realm, the academic world, the black church, and grass-roots activism movements. In his analysis of their activities in these realms, Louis Priso...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Race: The Achilles Heel of a Movement. - 1. Beginnings: The Subtleties of Race in Conservative Politics
• 2. The New "Color Blind" Conservatism: Creating an Intellectual Infrastructure
• 3. Stop The Genocide! Save the Race: The Anti-Abortion Movement within the Afircan American Community
• 4. Fight against the "Special Rights" Movement and End the Mis-Education of Black Children: Support School Vouchers!
• 5. Chasing Fools Gold: African Americans and the Party of Lincoln
• 6. The Creation of the Black Conservative Intelligentsia and its Impact on Black America
• 7. Rolling Rightward: An Examination of The African American Religious Right
• Epilogue. Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Future of African American Conservatism in the 21st Century.