Reluctant Reformers

Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States

Robert L. Allen, Chude Pamela Allen, Jamelle Bouie

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OR Books
19 October 2021

Human rights; Revolutionary groups & movements

Reluctant Reformersexplores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major democratic and social justice movements between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II. It focuses in particular on the abolitionists, the Populist Party, the Progressive reformers, and the women's suffrage, labor, and socialist and communist movements.

Despite their achievements, virtually all these predominantly white movements failed to oppose, capitulated to, or even advocated racism at critical junctures in their history, with their efforts undercut by their inability to build and sustain a mass movement of both Black and white Americans.

Reluctant Reformersexamines both the structural roots of racism in US radical movements and the impact of racist ideologies on the white-dominated core of each movement, how some whites resisted these pressures, and how Black people engaged with these movements. This edition includes a postscript describing the Black freedom movement of the 1960s and the central role it has played in the development of today's radical social justice movements.

By: Robert L. Allen, Chude Pamela Allen
Foreword by: Jamelle Bouie
Imprint: OR Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781682192788
ISBN 10: 1682192784
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 19 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert L. Allenis Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and previously taught at Mills College and San Jose State University. He is author ofBlack Awakening in Capitalist America,The Port Chicago Mutinyand numerous articles and books on race and ethnicity. He was editor ofThe Black Scholarjournal and vice president of the Black World Foundation. Chude Pamela Allenis on the Board of Directors of the Civil Rights Movement Archive, crmvet.org. She was editor of Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality's newspaper,UNION WAGE, and is author ofFree Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women's Liberation. She was featured in the filmsFreedom on My MindandShe's Beautiful When She's Angry.

Reviews for Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States

Sharp, compelling, and powerful-a model of well-structured historical argument ... For the last five years, I have been on an intellectual journey into the relationship between race and class, and I can say for certain that this book has shaped much of the path I'm on. -Jamelle Bouie