Abstract
STIRRINGS IN THE JUG: BLACK POLITICS IN THE POST-SEGREGATION ERA recapitulates the development of black "structural" politics over the course of the last fifty years in order to mark the failures and successes of black leadership in sustaining demands for equal citizenship and civil rights. To be sure, it is a study that offers so very much: a restructuring of the political history and debates from the southern protest movements of the 1950s to the "black revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s to the steady deterioration of radical black politics throughout the 1980s; a critical engagement with social policy discourse concerning the "underclass" in order to expose the mythologizing science of policy "underdevelopment" in urban America; an honest rereading of the uncritical evaluation and embrace of Malcolm X as commercial icon during the 1980s and early 1990s; and finally, a reconceptualization of black political activity that will realize the "gains of the 60s" whereby "black people, as individuals and as groups, organize, form alliances, and enter coalitions freely on the basis of mutually constituted interests, crisscrossing racial boundaries as they find it pragmatically appropriate" (50). [End Page 321]
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