Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought

by Dean E. Robinson

• ISBN13: 9780521626279
• ISBN10: 0521626277
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought revisits the activism and arguments in support of separate black statehood from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, detailing the ways black nationalism historically mirrors broader currents in US politics and thought. This book challenges the idea that black nationalism is an essentially timeless, unchanging, and anti-assimilationist impulse with respect to the alternative goal of racial inclusion. It argues that black nationalism in the United States draws on analogous political strategy and thinking unique to specific historical eras often inadvertently reproducing strategies and thinking responsible for racial inequality in the first place.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(7)
Anglo-African Nationalism	8	(26)
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam	34	(17)
Black Nationalist Organizations in the Civil Rights Era	51	(19)
Black Nationalist Discourse	70	(18)
Black Nationalism as Ethnic Pluralism	88	(16)
Black Nationalism and the Ethnic Paradigm	104	(14)
Black Nationalism in the Contemporary Era	118	(19)
Notes	137	(22)
Selected Bibliography	159	(6)
Index	165