Poor People, Urban Poor, African American History - Social Aspects, Civil Rights - Movements & Figures, United States - Ethnic & Race Relations, Family - Sociocultural Aspects, 20th Century American History - Civil Rights, Civil Rights - United States, Ci
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Overview
Noted historian Robin D. G. Kelley is tired of people talking about his mama and folks like her. He's tired of victim-blaming critics and policies that pin most of our social ills on the black urban poor. In Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Kelley fights back. In this provocative and timely book, he examines how scholars, activists, policy makers, and displaced working people themselves have made sense of the contemporary ghetto. At the same time, Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! gives voice to the very urban populations rendered silent by their attackers. He asks us to see culture and community as more than responses to, or products of, oppression. Ultimately, this is a hopeful book. Kelley reveals how new multiracial social movements emerging today have the potential of transforming the nation.Editorials
Booknews
Strolling through American urban street culture, Kelley (history, and Africana studies, New York U.) points out how misunderstandings of black culture have contributed to the failure of public policy, scholarship, the labor movement, and other social movements striving to improve lives and save cities. He critiques both conservatives and liberals for ignoring what the cultural expressions mean to their practitioners, and offers new analyses of black urban culture's multicultural roots. Some parts are revised from earlier publication. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1997
Publisher
Boston : Beacon Press, c1997.
Pages
225
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780807009406