New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975

by Van Deburg, William L.

• ISBN13: 9780226847153
• ISBN10: 0226847152
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: A Black Power Paradigm	1	(10)
What Is ``Black Power''?	11	(18)
Precursors and Preconditions: Why Was There a Black Power Movement?	29	(34)
Who Were the ``Militants''?	63	(49)
Black Power on Campus	64	(18)
Black Power in Sports	82	(10)
Black Power and Labor	92	(5)
Black Power and ``Total Institutions''	97	(15)
The Ideologies of Black Power	112	(80)
Pluralism	113	(16)
Nationalism	129	(63)
Black Power in Afro-American Culture: Folk Expressions	192	(56)
Soul Style	194	(10)
Soul Music	204	(12)
Soulful Talk	216	(8)
Soulful Tales	224	(12)
Soul Theology	236	(12)
Black Power and American Culture: Literary and Performing Arts	248	(44)
Defining ``Whitey''	260	(5)
Identifying ``Toms''	265	(7)
Understanding Black History	272	(8)
Achieving Liberation	280	(12)
Conclusion: Whatever Happened to Black Power?	292	(17)
Notes	309	(62)
Index	371