{"product_id":"reframing-randolph-9780814764640","title":"Reframing Randolph","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt\u003cbr\u003eone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of\u003cbr\u003ethe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment\u003cbr\u003eof America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black\u003cbr\u003eAmerica, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation for\u003cbr\u003enearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, the\u003cbr\u003eassaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the overall silencing\u003cbr\u003eof labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he has been largely forgotten among\u003cbr\u003elarge segments of the general public before whom he once loomed so large.\u003cbr\u003eHistorians, however, have not only continued to focus on Randolph himself, but\u003cbr\u003ehis role (either direct, or via his legacy) in a wide range of social,\u003cbr\u003epolitical, cultural, and even religious milieu and movements. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph’s dusty portrait down from\u003cbr\u003ethe wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new,\u003cbr\u003eand often competing, lights. This collection of essays gathers, for the very\u003cbr\u003efirst time, many genres of perspectives on Randolph. Featuring both established\u003cbr\u003eand emergent intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiography\u003cbr\u003eand blanket condemnation alike. The contributors represent the diverse ways\u003cbr\u003ethat historians have approached the importance of his long and complex career\u003cbr\u003ein the main political, social, and cultural currents of twentieth-century\u003cbr\u003eAfrican American specifically, and twentieth-century U.S. history overall. The\u003cbr\u003ecentral goal of Reframing Randolph is\u003cbr\u003eto achieve a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew E. Kersten","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48088917999867,"sku":"9780814764640","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_ca571db4-37d8-4d7a-b3f6-4b5c5482bd10.jpg?v=1770442764","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/reframing-randolph-9780814764640","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}