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Living in the Future

- Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Af: Victoria W. Wolcott Engelsk Hardback

Living in the Future

- Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Af: Victoria W. Wolcott Engelsk Hardback
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Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical-in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This is perhaps especially true when the utopian ideal in question is reforming and repairing the United States' bitter history of racial injustice. But as Victoria W. Wolcott provocatively argues, utopianism is actually the foundation of a rich and visionary worldview, one that specifically inspired the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement in ways that haven't yet been fully understood or appreciated. Wolcott makes clear that the idealism and pragmatism of the Civil Rights Movement were grounded in nothing less than an intensely utopian yearning. Key figures of the time, from Martin Luther King Jr. and Pauli Murray to Father Divine and Howard Thurman, all shared a belief in a radical pacificism that was both specifically utopian and deeply engaged in changing the current conditions of the existing world. Living in the Future recasts the various strains of mid-twentieth-century civil rights activism in a utopian light, revealing the power of dreaming in a profound and concrete fashion, one that can be emulated in other times that are desperate for change, like today.
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Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical-in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This is perhaps especially true when the utopian ideal in question is reforming and repairing the United States' bitter history of racial injustice. But as Victoria W. Wolcott provocatively argues, utopianism is actually the foundation of a rich and visionary worldview, one that specifically inspired the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement in ways that haven't yet been fully understood or appreciated. Wolcott makes clear that the idealism and pragmatism of the Civil Rights Movement were grounded in nothing less than an intensely utopian yearning. Key figures of the time, from Martin Luther King Jr. and Pauli Murray to Father Divine and Howard Thurman, all shared a belief in a radical pacificism that was both specifically utopian and deeply engaged in changing the current conditions of the existing world. Living in the Future recasts the various strains of mid-twentieth-century civil rights activism in a utopian light, revealing the power of dreaming in a profound and concrete fashion, one that can be emulated in other times that are desperate for change, like today.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226817255
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0226817253
Kategori: Etniske studier
Udg. Dato: 21 apr 2022
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 158mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 21 apr 2022
Forfatter(e): Victoria W. Wolcott
Forfatter(e) Victoria W. Wolcott

Kategori Etniske studier

ISBN-13 9780226817255

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 236mm

Højde 158mm

Udg. Dato 21 apr 2022

Oplagsdato 21 apr 2022

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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