From Black Power to Hip Hop

by Collins, Patricia Hill

• ISBN13: 9781592130924
• ISBN10: 1592130925
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

In this, her grounbreaking book, Patricia Hill Collins examines the new forms of racism in American life and the political responses to them. Using the experiences of African American men and women as her touchstone, she covers a wide range of issues that connect questions of race to American identity. She follows the long arc of African American responses to racism in the US, from Black Nationalism, to Black feminism, to hip hop. Using this "genealogy," she then investigates how nationalism has operated and reemerged in the wake of contemporary globalization and the unexpected resurgence of nationalism. She then offers an interpretation of how Black nationalsim works today in the wake of changing Black youth identity and the continuing need to draw on nationalism and feminism to formulate both a response to racism and a concrete platform of political action.

Author Biography

Patricia Hill Collins is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: From Black Power to Hip Hop	1	(28)
I Race, Family, and the U.S. Nation-State
1 Like One of the Family: Race, Ethnicity, and the Paradox of American National Identity	29	(26)
2 Will the "Real" Mother Please Stand Up? Race, Class, and American National Family Planning	55	(20)
II Ethnicity, Culture, and Black Nationalist Politics
3 Black Nationalism and African American Ethnicity: Afrocentrism as Civil Religion	75	(20)
4 When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered Content of Afrocentrism	95	(28)
III Feminism, Nationalism, and African American Women
5 Why Collective Identity Politics Matter: Feminism, Nationalism, and Black Women's Community Work	123	(38)
6 Is the Personal Still Political? The Women's Movement, Feminism, and Black Women in the Hip-Hop Generation	161	(36)
Notes	197	(26)
References	223	(18)
Index	241