Race and Place in Birmingham: The Civil Rights and Neighborhood Movements - Softcover

Wilson, Bobby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847694836 ISBN 13: 9780847694839

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

This pioneering book explores the implications of postmodernism for the black community through an analysis of the civil rights and neighborhood movements in Birmingham, Alabama. Grounded not only in class struggle, the Civil Rights Movement was tied to the politics of racial identity, the neighborhood movement to the politics of place identity. Bobby M. Wilson critically examines these two movements, which together transformed race and place in Birmingham. He shows that although the civil rights struggle and neighborhood empowerment served a valuable purpose, they cannot now overcome post-Fordist forces of domination and exclusion. Successful political movements, the author argues, must venture beyond the politics of identity and difference based on race and neighborhood.

About this title

About the Author

Bobby M. Wilson is associate professor of geography and public affairs, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847694836
• ISBN 13: 9780847694839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288