There are many histories on the US Civil Right Movement, but none approaches the familiar saga of the Black freedom struggle with the intent to ground it within the discipline of Africana Studies. Mark Christian relies on decades of student curiosity and wonder about the Civil Rights Movement to structure his retelling in ways that align with his pedagogy. He features African American historical contexts, analyses of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., the activism of Black women in the Movement, and insightful chapters on the era’s liberal politics. Christian prompts readers to broaden their application of the movement’s contemporary interpretation by boldly offering more sociological and psychological explanations of racism and pathology and by grounding his arguments in an Africana Studies disciplinary lexicon.

关于美国民权运动的历史有很多，但没有一个接近熟悉的黑人自由斗争传奇，目的是将其纳入非洲研究学科。马克·克里斯蒂安 (Mark Christian) 依靠数十年来学生对民权运动的好奇心和好奇心，以与他的教学法相一致的方式来组织他的复述。他以非裔美国人的历史背景、对马尔科姆·X 和马丁·路德·金的分析、运动中黑人女性的激进主义以及关于那个时代自由政治的有见地的章节为特色。克里斯蒂安通过大胆地对种族主义和病理学提供更多的社会学和心理学解释，并将他的论点建立在非洲研究学科词汇中，从而促使读者扩大他们对该运动的当代解释的应用。