Three postwar historical moments narrowed black politics toward the American Idea

Evidence

Obama is not this kind of black liberal. For him, if the distinctiveness of black folk is to be mentioned at all, it is only to confirm the greatness of our country. What choices were made to yoke black liberalism to the American Idea? What happened to make post black-liberals like President Obama possible? Three historical moments set the stage for this shift and they, along with the demands for Cold War consensus, narrowed the range of black politics. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 441

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Martin Luther King Jr.’s promissory-note framing treated the American Idea as sound but unhonored — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 418; Pre-Cold-War black politics linked domestic struggle to global anti-colonialism — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 438; Postwar U.S. racial history reversed from despotism transformation to containment (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Martin Luther King Jr.’s promissory-note framing treated the American Idea as sound but unhonored — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 418; Pre-Cold-War black politics linked domestic struggle to global anti-colonialism — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 438; Postwar U.S. racial history reversed from despotism transformation to containment (+1 more)