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Peace Be Still: Modern Black America from World War II to Barack Obama Paperback – January 1, 2014

by Matthew C. Whitaker (Author)

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A concise, engaging, and provocative history of African Americans since World War II,Peace Be Still is also nothing less than an alternate history of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organizing this history around culture, politics, and resistance, Matthew C. Whitaker takes us from World War II as a galvanizing force for African American activism and the modern civil rights movement to the culmination of generations of struggle in the election of Barack Obama.

From the promise of the postWorld War II era to the black power movement of the 1960s, the economic and political struggles of the 1970s, and the major ideological realignment of political culture during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, this book chronicles a people fighting oppression while fashioning a dynamic culture of artistic and religious expression along with a program of educational and professional advancement. A resurgence of rigid conservative right-wing policies, the politics of poverty, racial profiling, and police brutality are ongoing counterpoints to African Americans rising to political prominence and securing positions once denied them.

A history of African Americans for a new generation, Peace Be Still demonstrates how dramatically African American history illuminates the promise, conflicts, contradictions, hopes, and victories that all Americans share.

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393 pages
Language

English
Publisher

University of Nebraska Press
Publication date

January 1, 2014
Dimensions

6 x 1 x 8.75 inches
ISBN-10

0803249640
ISBN-13

978-0803249646
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/22/opinion/whitaker-arizona-law/index.html?iref=allsearch (Matthew C. Whitaker cnn.com 2014-02-22)

“An indispensable survey of modern African American history and its implications in the present. Expansive in its breadth, keen in its observations, and fluid in its prose, this is the best single volume on the period.”—William Jelani Cobb, associate professor of history and director of the Institute of African American Studies, University of Connecticut, and author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress

(William Jelani Cobb 2013-04-15)

“A strong contribution to the field and historiography of African American history. Written in clear and concise language and filled with brilliant insights.”—Peniel Joseph, professor of history at Tufts University, and author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama

(Peniel Joseph 2013-04-15)

“Eloquent yet concise, Professor Whitaker’s thoughtful survey of contemporary African American History offers a rich narrative that expertly situates the victories and hardships of the last half century, within the context of a long Black Freedom struggle, the ebbs and flows of which continues to this day. Peace Be Still should be required reading for all serious students of U.S. and African American History.”—Yohuru Williams, professor and chair of the Department of History, Fairfield University, and author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and the Black Panthers in New Haven (Yohuru Williams 2013-04-15)

.This history of African Americans for a new generation breaks new ground by offering a fresh, articulate, succinct, and comprehensive examination of recent black history..—W. T. Howard, CHOICE (W. T. Howard CHOICE)

About the Author

Matthew C. Whitaker is ASU Foundation Professor of History and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University. He is the author ofRace Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West (Nebraska, 2005) and the coeditor ofHurricane Katrina: Americas Unnatural Disaster (Nebraska, 2009).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Nebraska Press (January 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 393 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803249640
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803249646
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 8.75 inches

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- #215,087 in United States History (Books)

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Carl Ruzycki

Continuing antics?

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2013

“This book is still worse. Where not copying from the Hine text, the author relies on the most superficial and non-scholarly sources on the web, including Wikipedia. Note these examples: On p. 86, Whitaker copies near directly from the on-line Stanford Martin Luther King encyclopedia, and on p. 94 from [...] His text on Molefi Kete Asante is also taken from that source, without citing, though he neatly cites the sources blackpast.org cites, as if he had looked at them.

What is the University of Nebraska press doing publishing something like this? A textbook uses other sources, but it doesn’t just copy them."

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Jim Emmons

Not fully comprehensive on major topics

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2014

I don't think the treatment of Malcolm X in Chapter 2 is very illuminating. Whitaker has many sources available to him about Malcolm X's life and place in history; he could have chosen better.

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william jelani cobb

Great Exploration of Modern History

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2014

I read this when I was considering textbooks for the course I teach on African American history from Reconstruction to present. It's been getting more difficult to think that a span that includes the death of Lincoln and the election of Obama can be covered well in a single course . This book caught my attention because I was in the midst of dividing my course into two separate groupings. The book is engaging, cogently written and provides an excellent overview of the multiple movements, events and personalities that define the era. It's also the best treatment of hip hop (the culture and the generation) in relation to the history that came before it. I'm adopting it for my class.

I also read the earlier reviews for this book and I have to say I didn't see anything that marked this book as derivative or plagiaristic. Then again it's also quite odd to devote time to googling random pages of textbooks as if they were term papers. I suspect that's probably the work of someone with a professional ax to grind.

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a reader

Derivative and plagiarized

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2014

This author does not write his own work. Instead, he lifts passages from books and websites, changes a word or phrase here or there (often introducing errors in the processes) and stitches those passages together. The author's previous book "Race Work" was written this way, and now this new book "Peace Be Still" is riddled with the same kind of plagiarism. Readers be warned. University of Nebraska Press should not have published this book.

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SJMC

Copied?

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2013

If this book sounds familiar, it is probably because the author tends to plagiarize. Google "matthew whitaker plagiarism". Hine and Harrold should do some investigation.

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Marie D.

Wonderful Book!

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2013

Dr. Whitaker's Peace Be Still is a wonderful book. It's easy to read and his acknowledgments, notes, and bibliography, place his work in the proper historiographical context, while paying his intellectual debts to his mentors and role models, such as the eminent Darlene Clark Hine, and others. I am a proud owner of several of Dr. Whitaker's books. They have taught me and many others a great deal. I'd thank him personally, if I could, for his continued work and dedication. I'd also tell him to not be discouraged by the critics. I left graduate school because I couldn't tolerate the self-righteousness and viciousness of most academics. I don't know how he does it, but I hope he continues because we need young black male historians like him and more books like Peace Be Still.

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Eric Schneider

Problem book

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2013

Pages and pages seem remarkably similar to African American Odyssey; not sure what, if anything, is new here. I'm curious to see how the authors of AAO respond to this text.

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Cassondra Whitaker

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2013

Peace Be Still is an excellent book that offers a fresh look at new and familiar topics. Some detractors, who clearly have a personal vendetta again Whitaker, argue that the book is similar to one written by Hine, Hine and Harrold. They fail to mention that Whitaker cited the Hine text liberally, reviewed Hine's first edition before it was published, is listed in her acknowledgments, was directed by Hine in graduate school, and was heavily inspired by Hine intellectually. Why wouldn't his book influenced by Hine and his intellectual predecessors?

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