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This chapter establishes a clear lacuna in our dialog on race that has diminished and forgotten the arguable architect of American civil rights: James Farmer Jr. More recently, we are experiencing a regression on the question of race that is rooted in a false and pathological history of civil rights that reifies the militancy and not the tenets of Farmer or Martin Luther King. The Black Lives Matter movement is infused with a reified and romanticized notion of the early Malcolm X with calls for more militancy and separatism. Our young people are actively misled in the education about racial history in America about what worked and what did not work; about what hurt and what helped; and about what the difference between love and hate really is.
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Denton, R.E., Voth, B. (2017). Making Black Lives Matter Today. In: Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43922-8_7
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