A Guide to Black Power in America
Author: Robert L. Allen
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780575005341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert L. Allen
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780575005341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joanne Griffith
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0872865460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conversations with black leaders and activists exploring current African American political and cultural life.
Author: Peniel E. Joseph
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-07-10
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780805083354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the Black Power movement in the United States traces the origins and evolution of the influential movement and examines the ways in which Black Power redefined racial identity and culture. With the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin Luther King's pacifism and, building on Malcolm X's legacy, pioneered a radical new approach to the fight for equality. [This book] is a history of the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and women who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality. In the book, the author traces the history of the men and women of the movement, many of them famous or infamous, others forgotten. It begins in Harlem in the 1950s, where, despite the Cold War's hostile climate, black writers, artists, and activists built a new urban militancy that was the movement's earliest incarnation. In a series of character driven chapters, we witness the rise of Black Power groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers, and with them, on both coasts of the country, a fundamental change in the way Americans understood the unfinished business of racial equality and integration. The book invokes the way in which Black Power redefined black identity and culture and in the process redrew the landscape of American race relations.
Author: William L. Van Deburg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993-09-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 022617235X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most comprehensive account available of the rise and fall of the Black Power Movement and of its dramatic transformation of both African-American and larger American culture. With a gift for storytelling and an ear for street talk, William Van Deburg chronicles a decade of deep change, from the armed struggles of the Black Panther party to the cultural nationalism of artists and writers creating a new aesthetic. Van Deburg contends that although its tactical gains were sometimes short-lived, the Black Power movement did succeed in making a revolution—one in culture and consciousness—that has changed the context of race in America. "New Day in Babylon is an extremely intelligent synthesis, a densely textured evocation of one of American history's most revolutionary transformations in ethnic group consciousness."—Bob Blauner, New York Times Winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, 1993
Author: Raymond Gavins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1107103398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Intended for high school and college students, teachers, adult educational groups, and general readers, this book is of value to them primarily as a learning and reference tool. It also provides a critical perspective on the actions and legacies of ordinary and elite blacks and their non-black allies.
Author: Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1421429764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ultimately, Black Power reveals a black freedom movement in which the ideals of desegregation through nonviolence and black nationalism marched side by side.
Author: Valerie C. Johnson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0791487792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The country's largest concentration of African American suburban affluence represents a unique laboratory to study the internal factors associated with African American political ascendancy and the convergence of race and class. Black Power in the Suburbs chronicles Prince George's County, Maryland, and the twenty-three year quest by African Americans to influence educational policy and become equal partners in the county's governing coalition. Johnson challenges conventional notions of a monolithic community by addressing the manner in which class cleavages among African Americans affect their representation and policy interests in suburbia. She also documents white resistance to power sharing and the impact of school desegregation on white population trends.
Author: Joyce M. Bell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0231538014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential "bad boy" of modern black movement-making in America. Yet this impression misses the full extent of Black Power's contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black professionals in social work. Relying on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, Joyce M. Bell follows two groups of black social workers in the 1960s and 1970s as they mobilized Black Power ideas, strategies, and tactics to change their national professional associations. Comparing black dissenters within the National Federation of Settlements (NFS), who fought for concessions from within their organization, and those within the National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW), who ultimately adopted a separatist strategy, she shows how the Black Power influence was central to the creation and rise of black professional associations. She also provides a nuanced approach to studying race-based movements and offers a framework for understanding the role of social movements in shaping the non-state organizations of civil society.
Author: Noliwe Rooks
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2007-02-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780807032718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of African American studies is often told as a heroic tale, with compelling images of black power and passionate African American students who refused to take no for an answer. Noliwe M. Rooks argues for the recognition of another story, which proves that many of the programs that survived actually began as a result of white philanthropy. With unflinching honesty, Rooks shows that the only way to create a stable future for African American studies is by confronting its complex past.
Author: Ashley D. Farmer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1469634384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the "Militant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality. Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.