
Reframing Randolph
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one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of
the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment
of America's multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black
America, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation for
nearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, the
assaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the overall silencing
of labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he has been largely forgotten among
large segments of the general public before whom he once loomed so large.
Historians, however, have not only continued to focus on Randolph himself, but
his role (either direct, or via his legacy) in a wide range of social,
political, cultural, and even religious milieu and movements.
The authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph's dusty portrait down from
the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new,
and often competing, lights. This collection of essays gathers, for the very
first time, many genres of perspectives on Randolph. Featuring both established
and emergent intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiography
and blanket condemnation alike. The contributors represent the diverse ways
that historians have approached the importance of his long and complex career
in the main political, social, and cultural currents of twentieth-century
African American specifically, and twentieth-century U.S. history overall. The
central goal of Reframing Randolph is
to achieve a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal.
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"The volume succeeds admirably, building a series of partially overlapping portraits from different perspectives but also through lenses of varied focal length." (Journal of American History) "The essays in this important collection . . . probe the breadth and depth of Randolph's social, economic, and political beliefs and leadership commitments during his path breaking yet often contentiouscareer. . . . The collection not only reinterprets Randolph and reframes his place in history, thus complicating our understanding of Randolph in his time, but suggests ways his legacy speaks to struggles for economic and social justice in our time." - Beth T. Bates,Wayne State University "Reframing Randolph is a terrific examination of one of the twentieth centurys most important social and political figures. Along with a stellar list of contributors, Kersten and Lang provide an unmatched assessment of Randolphs social and political activism and labor organizing that uncovers important new insights and exposes critical nuances of his thought and character." - Cornelius L. Bynum,author of A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil RightsMore details
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Clarence Lang is Associate Professor of African & African American Studies, and American Studies, at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75.
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