C. Wright Mills Second Award Winning Book 1987 Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center “An intriguing look at the interplay of race and class, this work is both scholarly and jargon-free. A sophisticated study.” —Library Journal
“This is an exciting book . . . combining . . . dramatic episodes with an insightful analysis . . . The use of concepts of class is subtle and effective.” —Peter N. Stearns
“ . . . ambitious and wide-ranging . . . ” —Georgia Historical Quarterly
“ . . . excellent historical analysis . . . ” —North Carolina Historical Review
“Historians should welcome this book. A well-written, jargon-free, interpretive synthesis, it relates impersonal political-economic forces to the human actors who were shaped by them and, in turn, helped shape them. . . . This refreshing study reminds us how much the American dilemma of race has been complicated by problems of class.” —American Historical Review
“ . . . a broad historical sweep . . . skillfully surveys key areas of historiographical debate and succinctly summarizes a good deal of recent secondary literature.” —Journal of Southern History
“ . . . Bloom does a masterful job of presenting the major structural and psychological interpretations associated with the Civil Rights Movement . . . It will make an excellent general text to welcome undergraduates and reintroduce old-timers to the social ferment that surrounded the Civil Rights Movement.” —Contemporary Sociology
A unique sociohistorical analysis of the civil rights movement, analyzing the interaction between the economy and political systems in the South, which led to racial stratification. |
