Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism
Its original leaders, Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks, were Black Nationalists, advocating a militant and extremist approach to tackle racism, while other leaders, such as Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers, believed that the struggle for Black Power was essentially a class struggle. Beginning with the folk-narratives told through song by slaves in the plantations, through the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, the era of Malcolm X, the African-American art and fashion of the late sixties and 'soul music' and politics in the 1970s, Black Power and the American People will be the first comprehensive cultural history of the movement.
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Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism
Its original leaders, Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks, were Black Nationalists, advocating a militant and extremist approach to tackle racism, while other leaders, such as Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers, believed that the struggle for Black Power was essentially a class struggle. Beginning with the folk-narratives told through song by slaves in the plantations, through the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, the era of Malcolm X, the African-American art and fashion of the late sixties and 'soul music' and politics in the 1970s, Black Power and the American People will be the first comprehensive cultural history of the movement.
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Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism

Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism

by Rafael Torrubia
Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism

Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism

by Rafael Torrubia

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Its original leaders, Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks, were Black Nationalists, advocating a militant and extremist approach to tackle racism, while other leaders, such as Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers, believed that the struggle for Black Power was essentially a class struggle. Beginning with the folk-narratives told through song by slaves in the plantations, through the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, the era of Malcolm X, the African-American art and fashion of the late sixties and 'soul music' and politics in the 1970s, Black Power and the American People will be the first comprehensive cultural history of the movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780763941
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/13/2016
Series: Library of Modern American History
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Rafael Torrubia completed his PhD in History at St. Andrew's under Gerard De Groot.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Hotheads and Demagogues: What is Black Power? 28

2 Why Black Power? 45

3 A Nation of Militants? 97

4 'Dramas-of-Aggression': Black Power in Sports 133

5 Behind Bars and Under Fire 162

6 Chariots to the Stars 184

7 Culture from the Midnight Hour 226

Conclusion The Long History of Black Power 265

Notes 270

Bibliography 318

Index 339

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