Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010

Robert C. Smith

Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010
Format
Hardback
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Country
United States
Published
1 February 2018
Pages
354
ISBN
9781438468679

Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010

Robert C. Smith

From his leadership of the first modern lunch counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African American reparations at the time of his death at age seventy-two, Ronald W. Walters (1938-2010) was at the cutting edge of African American politics. A preeminent scholar, activist, and media commentator, he was founding chair of the Black Studies Department at Brandeis, where he shaped the epistemological parameters of the new discipline. Walters was an early strategist of congressional black power and a longtime advocate of a black presidential candidacy. His writings on the politics of race in America both predicted the constraints on President Obama in advancing African American interests and anticipated the emergence of the white nationalism found in the Tea Party and Donald Trump insurgency. In this fascinating book, Robert C. Smith combines history and biography to offer an overview of the last half century of black politics in America through the lens of the life and work of the man often described as the W. E. B. Du Bois of his time.

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