Rights for a season : the politics of race, class, and gender in Richmond, Virginia

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Label

Rights for a season : the politics of race, class, and gender in Richmond, Virginia

Title remainder

the politics of race, class, and gender in Richmond, Virginia

Statement of responsibility

Lewis A. Randolph and Gayle T. Tate

Creator

• Randolph, Lewis A

Contributor

• Tate, Gayle T

Subject

• African Americans -- Virginia | Richmond -- Politics and government
• African Americans -- Virginia | Richmond -- Social conditions
• Civil rights movements -- Virginia | Richmond -- History
• History
• Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government
• Richmond (Va.) -- Race relations | Political aspects
• Richmond (Va.) -- Social conditions
• Sex role -- Political aspects -- Virginia | Richmond -- History
• Social classes -- Virginia | Richmond -- History
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Virginia | Richmond -- History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "The struggle for black empowerment in Richmond, Virginia, neither began nor ended with the civil rights movement. In Rights for a Season, Lewis A. Randolph and Gayle T. Tate explore the many facets and stages of black political mobilization in Richmond, tracing the rise and decline of black political power in the city. They demonstrate the centrality of race, class, and gender dynamics as determining factors in the evolution of Richmond's political landscape."
• "Focusing on the social and political forces that shaped the civil rights movement in Richmond, Randolph and Tate chart the transformation in the black community's response as it moved from resistance to mobilization and from protest politics to electoral politics. At the heart of the book is the story of the historic election of a black-majority city council in 1977 and its subsequent collapse in 1982. The authors' rich analysis shows that white resistance to both African American political leadership and the politics of inclusion contributed to the breakdown of the city council, as did the class and gender divisions among council members. These divisions mirrored those in the African American community as a whole
• Moreover, Randolph and Tate argue that the biracial alliances formed by black conservatives ultimately shifted political power back to the white elite."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

323.1/1960730755451/09046

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

F234.R59

LC item number

N473 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography