“Civil Rights” as Mythical Origin Christopher Caldwell’s origin story in The Age of Entitlement is frustrating and unconvincing, and nowhere more so than in its lack of attentiveness to the dramatic shifts in black politics in the mid-60s.
Abundance, Scarcity, and the Race/Class Short-Circuit Just as black struggle is taken to stand in for working-class struggle, so too is the present enemy of black struggle—the police—taken to stand in for the capitalist class.
