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100 1 Sokol, Jason.
245 10 All eyes are upon us :|brace and politics from Boston to
Brooklyn /|cJason Sokol.
264 1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c[2014]
300 xxvi, 385 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-371) and
index.
505 0 Introduction: The Northern Mystique -- Part I: North of
Jim Crow -- 1. And to Think That It Happened in
Springfield : Pioneering Pluralism, Practicing Segregation
(1939-1945) -- 2. Something in the Air : Jackie Robinson's
Brooklyn (1947-1957) -- 3. "If We Were Segregationists" :
The Struggle to Integrate Northeastern Schools (1957-1965)
-- Part II: Forerunners -- 4. The Color-Blind
Commonwealth? : The Election of Edward Brooke (1966) -- 5.
Shirley Chisholm's Place : Winning New York's 12th
Congressional District (1968) -- Part III: Mirrors -- 6.
"The North is Guilty" : Abraham Ribicoff's Crusade (1970)
-- 7. "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 --
8. A Tale of Two Hartfords : Politics and Poverty in a
Land of Plenty (1980-1987) -- 9. The Ghost of Willie Turks
: Racial Violence and Black Politics in New York City
(1982-1993) -- 10. The North Rises Again : Deval Patrick,
Barack Obama, and the 21st Century (2006-2012).
520 2 "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"--
|cProvided by publisher.
520 2 "From the 19th century, when northern cities were home to
strong abolitionist communities and served as a
counterpoint to the slaveholding South, through the first
half of the 20th century, when the North became a
destination for African Americans fleeing Jim Crow, the
Northeastern United States has had a long history of
acceptance and liberalism. But as historian Jason Sokol
reveals in All Eyes Are Upon Us, northern states like
Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut were also
strongholds of segregation and deep-seated racism. In All
Eyes Are Upon Us, historian Jason Sokol shows how
Northerners--black and white alike--have struggled to
realize the North's progressive past and potential since
the 1940s, efforts that, he insists, have slowly but
surely succeeded. As Sokol argues, the region's halting
attempts to reconcile its progressive image with its
legacy of racism can be viewed as a microcosm of America's
struggles with race as a whole: outwardly democratic,
inwardly imbalanced, but always challenging itself to live
up to its idealized role as a model of racial equality.
Indeed, Sokol posits that it was the Northeast's fierce
pride in its reputation of progressiveness that ultimately
rescued the region from its own prejudices and propelled
it along an unlikely path to equality. An invaluable
examination of the history of race and politics in the
Northeast, All Eyes Are Upon Us offers a provocative
account of the region's troubled roots in segregation and
its promising future in politicians from Deval Patrick to
Barack Obama"--|cProvided by publisher.
650 0 African Americans|xCivil rights|zNortheastern States
|xHistory|y20th century.
650 0 African Americans|xCivil rights|zNortheastern States
|xHistory|y21st century.
650 0 African Americans|xSegregation|zNortheastern States
|xHistory.
650 0 Racism|xPolitical aspects|zNortheastern States|xHistory.
650 0 Progressivism (United States politics)
650 0 History, Modern|y20th century.
650 0 History|zUnited States|xState & Local|xNew England (CT, MA,
ME, NH, RI, VT)
650 0 Social sciences|xSlavery.
651 0 Northeastern States|xRace relations|xPolitical aspects
|xHistory.
651 0 Northeastern States|xPolitics and government.
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