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- Title
Race, Labor, and the City in the Obama Era: King's Unfinished Agenda.
- Authors
Honey, Michael
- Abstract
In "Race, Labor and the City in the Obama Era: King's Unfinished Agenda," Honey surveys what has happened in Memphis since the King assassination. He argues that King's phase one of civil rights has largely succeeded but that King's phase two of economic justice has not. As is the case all over the nation, the black working class has suffered disproportionately from deindustrialization, loss of unions, and the trickle-down economics of racial capitalism. Honey argues that the election of Barack Obama as president forty years after King's death provides unprecedented opportunity but only if a movement counters diluted proposals for "bipartisan" reform with demands that government implement King's unfinished agenda of ending racism, poverty, and war.
- Subjects
UNITED States; KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; ASSASSINATION; CIVIL rights; WORKING class; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; DISTRIBUTIVE justice; HISTORY of civil rights
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-2009-049