131 | What's Left of Black Politics? Brandon Terry's Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

About this episode

The episode discusses Brandon Terry's book on the Civil Rights Movement and its implications for the future of Black politics.

In this episode, we discuss Brandon Terry’s 2025 book Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement. There is little doubt that in US the Civil Rights Movement stands out as one of the clearest examples of Black politics in the social imagination. How we narrate the Civil Rights Movement tends to shape our expectations of politics and the future. But what happens when the resources of this tradition fall into crisis? What is the future of Black politics in a pr...

People in this episode

Hosts: Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, William Paris

Guest: Brandon Terry

Topics covered

• Black politics
• Civil Rights Movement
• political narrative
• future of politics
• social imagination

Keywords

• Black politics
• Civil Rights Movement
• Brandon Terry
• political narrative
• future of politics

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

Places: US

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