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This book is written by a political scientist.
It helped me to hold two truths in tension—on the one hand, that there is increasing class and geographic variation among African Americans that leads to multiple, sometimes competing agendas, and on the other hand, Black Americans still express significant political solidarity, irrespective of their other social statuses. Dawson identifies the social conditions leading to shared political goals among African Americans—what he calls “linked fate.”
While his and others’ subsequent research shows that political solidarity among African Americans is waning to some extent, Behind the Mule is still important for…
From Angela's list on The best books on how the Black middle class reveals the racial reality of the United States.
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