tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post8441935226819934421..comments2024-01-14T23:07:20.775-06:00Comments on dcat: The Greensboro 4 at 50dcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-81137980890677360462010-02-05T13:21:23.654-06:002010-02-05T13:21:23.654-06:00Ed --
Paradox was probably the wrong word. I gues...Ed --<br /> Paradox was probably the wrong word. I guess it seems contradictory for those not as familiar with the historical trends. <br /><br />Best, and congrats on the new book.<br /><br />dcatdcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-56484992567463027222010-02-04T21:42:20.478-06:002010-02-04T21:42:20.478-06:00Derek - I've thought a lot about this and I ag...Derek - I've thought a lot about this and I agree with your take here. I'm sure you're very familiar with Eric Arnesen's article in response to the surge of LCRM work, and setting aside the element of his critique focusing on what he sees as the attachment of those writing in that vein to developments in the 1930s, I think he does have a point echoing what you're suggesting when he cites E.P. Thompson on the nature of social movements. And I think Hall also tries to set aside the period beginning in 1954 as the "classical" period in her long civil rights JAH piece. So this does not seem to me to necessarily be contradictory or paradoxical. In my chapter on the Kennedys and civil rights I argue that there was a distinctively new momentum that came to a head in the years from 1960-1965.ed schmittnoreply@blogger.com