The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era

by Joseph; Peniel E.

• ISBN13: 9780415945950
• ISBN10: 041594595X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors around to write original essays on the Black Power Movement. Taken together they provide a critical and much needed historical overview of the Black Power era. Offering important examples of undocumented histories of black liberation, this volume offers both powerful and poignant examples of "Black Power Studies" scholarship.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List Of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction: Toward A Historiography Of The Black Power Movement	1	(26)
Peniel E. Joseph
``Alabama On Avalon''
Rethinking the Watts Uprising and the Character of Black Protest in Los Angeles	27	(28)
Jeanne Theoharis
Amiri Baraka, The Congress Of African People, And Black Power Politics From The 1961 United Nations Protest To The 1972 Gary Convention	55	(24)
Komozi Woodard
Black Women, Urban Politics, And Engendering Black Power	79	(26)
Rhonda Y. Williams
Black Feminists Respond To Black Power Masculinism	105	(146)
Kimberly Springer
The Third World Women's Alliance
Black Feminist Radicalism and Black Power Politics	119	(26)
Stephen Ward
The Roots Of Black Power?
Armed Resistance and the Radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement	145	(22)
Simon Wendt
``A Red, Black And Green Liberation Jumpsuit''
Roy Wilkins, the Black Panthers, and the Conundrum of Black Power	167	(26)
Yohuru Williams
Rainbow Radicalism
The Rise of the Radical Ethnic Nationalism	193	(36)
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
``A Holiday Of Our Own''
Kwanzaa, Cultural Nationalism, and the Promotion of a Black Power Holiday, 1966-1985	229	(22)
Keith Mayes
Black Studies, Student Activism, And The Black Power Movement	251	(28)
Peniel E. Joseph
Notes	279	(76)
Contributors	355	(2)
Index	357