TY - JOUR
AU - Rankin, David C.
AB - 1156 The Journal of American History December 1997 phis politics as well as scholars, introduce the system. Herenton got 3 percent of white votes, concept of "racial reflexivity." It refers to how Hackett 1 percent of African Americans'. Afri­ a history of exceptional racial antagonism pre­ can Americans were also swept into the city cludes a candidate's appealing to voters across council, school board, and city court. racial lines. What they call the "threshold" of Such labels as "liberal," "populist," "conser­ racial reflexivity was reached in Memphis; that vative" appear too often without definition, is, a past of entrenched Jim Crowism, white­ especially since the viewsof candidates on eco­ on-black race riots, and episodes of very mil­ nomic issues were substantively similar. Epi­ itant direct action by blacks loomed large in logue passages note how difficult Herenton white and African American collective mem­ found it to deliver to his low-income African ory. A successful African American candidate American constituency. But interviews, press therefore could not take an accommodationist accounts, and quantitative data are used effec­ route to office. Herenton won by near-perfect tively, and earthy details about personal lives African American unity, the city's tiny number abound. That Memphis's 
TI - Speak Truth to Power: Black Professional Class in United States History. By Darlene Clark Hine. (Brooklyn: Carlson, 1996. lii, 222 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-926019-91-0.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2953244
DA - 1997-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/speak-truth-to-power-black-professional-class-in-united-states-history-jEdFDYvuGt
SP - 1156
EP - 1157
VL - 84
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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