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368 pages; 6 x 9 inches

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The Impact of Racism on American Social Reform Movements

by Robert Allen

Reluctant Reformers: The Impact of Racism on American Social Reform Movements, by Robert Allen with the collaboration of Pamela P. Allen, explores the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major social reform movements in the United States between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II.  In examining the firebrands of the Abolitionist, Populist, Progressive, Women’s Suffrage, Labor, Socialist, and Communist movements and their relations with African Americans and other ethnic groups, the Allens pinpoint racist ideology as the impetus of conflict and the sabotage of movement goals.  A postscript to this edition extends this analysis, tracing the origins and impacts of the social reform movements of the 1960s and 1970s: the Civil Rights, Black Power, anti-Vietnam War, Woman’s Liberation, and Black Studies movements as well as the emerging movements among Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Native Americans, and Asian and Pacific Americans. The postscript further continues the authors’ commentary on American society attempts to transcend what they claim is its inherent weakness: racism.

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