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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Sokol, Jason.     Subjects     Blacks -- Civil rights -- Northeastern States -- History -- 20th century.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- Northeastern States -- History -- 21st century.     Blacks -- Segregation -- Northeastern States -- History.     Racism -- Political aspects -- Northeastern States -- History.     Progressivism (United States politics).     Northeastern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History.     Northeastern States -- Politics and government.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sokol, Jason.       by title:      All eyes are upon us...       by call number:      323.1196 S683a     Search the Web     Sokol, Jason.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- Northeastern States -- History -- 20th century.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- Northeastern States -- History -- 21st century.     Blacks -- Segregation -- Northeastern States -- History.     Racism -- Political aspects -- Northeastern States -- History.     Progressivism (United States politics).     Northeastern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History.     Northeastern States -- Politics and government.       MARC Display

All eyes are upon us : race and politics from Boston to Brooklyn / Jason Sokol. by Sokol, Jason. Basic Books, a member of The Persus Books Group, c2014. Call #: 323.1196 S683a Subjects Blacks -- Civil rights -- Northeastern States -- History -- 20th century.   Blacks -- Civil rights -- Northeastern States -- History -- 21st century.   Blacks -- Segregation -- Northeastern States -- History.   Racism -- Political aspects -- Northeastern States -- History.   Progressivism (United States politics).   Northeastern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History.   Northeastern States -- Politics and government. ISBN:  9780465022267 (hc.) 046502226X (hc.) Description:  xxvi, 385 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Notes:  "The conflicted soul of the Northeast"--Cover. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index. Contents:  Introduction: The Northern mystique -- Part I: North of Jim Crow. And to think that it happened in Springfield : pioneering pluralism, practicing segregation (1939-1945) ; Something in the air : Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn (1947-1957) ; "If we were segregationists" : the struggle to integrate Northeastern schools (1957-1965) -- Part II: Forerunners. The color-blind commonwealth? : the election of Edward Brooke (1966) ; Shirley Chisholm's place : winning New York's 12th Congressional District (1968) -- Part III: Mirrors. "The North is guilty" : Abraham Ribicoff's crusade (1970) ; "This bedeviling busing business" : the long 1970s, the trials of Edward Brooke, and the fall of the North (1968-1979) -- Part IV: The death and life of the North. A tale of two Hartfords : politics and poverty in a land of plenty (1980-1987) ; The ghost of Willie Turks : racial violence and Black politics in New York City (1982-1993) ; The North rises again : Deval Patrick, Barack Obama, and the twenty-first century (2006-2012). Summary:  "The Northeastern United States--home to abolitionism and a refuge for blacks fleeing the Jim Crow South--has had a long and celebrated history of racial equality and political liberalism. After World War II, the region appeared poised to continue this legacy, electing black politicians and rallying behind black athletes and cultural leaders. However, as historian Jason Sokol reveals in All Eyes Are Upon Us, these achievements obscured the harsh reality of a region riven by segregation and deep-seated racism. White fans from across Brooklyn--Irish, Jewish, and Italian--came out to support Jackie Robinson when he broke baseball's color barrier with the Dodgers in 1947, even as the city's blacks were shunted into segregated neighborhoods. The African-American politician Ed Brooke won a senate seat in Massachusetts in 1966, when the state was 97% white, yet his political career was undone by the resistance to busing in Boston. Across the Northeast over the last half-century, blacks have encountered housing and employment discrimination as well as racial violence. But the gap between the northern ideal and the region's segregated reality left small but meaningful room for racial progress. Forced to reckon with the disparity between their racial practices and their racial preaching, blacks and whites forged interracial coalitions and demanded that the region live up to its promise of equal opportunity. A revelatory account of the tumultuous modern history of race and politics in the Northeast, All Eyes Are Upon Us presents the Northeast as a microcosm of America as a whole: outwardly democratic, inwardly conflicted, but always striving to live up to its highest ideals"--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 323.1196 S683a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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