Description: Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics : How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America, Paperback by Musgrove, George Derek, ISBN 0820341215, ISBN-13 9780820341217, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Musgrove (history, U. of District of Columbia) examines harassment ideology, state repression, and the disproportionate investigation of black elected officials in the post civil-rights era. He looks at why in 1966/67 the Georgia and US House of Representatives wouldn't seat Julian Bond and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., legitimately elected black representatives; the pattern of targeted surveillance and repression of black officials between 1965 and 1975; the emergence of "harassment ideology" in the wake of the Watergate Scandal and its effect on black political thought; Republican attacks on black Democrats by means of targeted federal law enforcement in the 1980s; the disproportionate investigation of black elected officials in Alabama and the role of their resistance in the national struggle against targeted investigation; and the fall of anti-harassment organizing in the 1990s. Musgrove underscores how the role of scandal journalism facilitated the atmosphere of repression and "politics by other means." Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics : How the Harassment of Bl
Subject Area: Constitutional Law
Author: George Derek Musgrove
Publication Name: Rumor, Repression and Racial Politics: How the Harrassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Subject: Government
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
