A history of the Black Power movement in the United States traces the origins and evolution of the influential movement and examines the ways in which Black Power redefined racial identity and culture.
Offers a narrative chronicle of race in the United States and the successes, failures, and stalemates of African American leaders in the past fifty years.
In Stokely, preeminent civil rights scholar Peniel E. Joseph presents a groundbreaking biography of Carmichael, using his life as a prism through which to view the transformative African American freedom struggles of the twentieth century.
John Henrik Clarke (Boston: Beacon, 1968), 4; Ernest Kaiser, “The Failure of William Styron,” in Clark, Ten Black Writers, 57, 65; Darwin T. Turner, review of The Confessions of Nat Turner, in Journal of Negro History 53 {April 1968}: ...
With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition highlights the continuing significance of the movement for black equality and justice.
This beautifully written book reclaims World War I as a critical moment in the freedom struggle and places African Americans at the crossroads of social, military, and international history.
This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define.
The opportunity to recognize that genius and see its applicability to our own times is what is most significant about this new edition." —Robert Stanley Oden, former Panther, Professor of Government, California State University, ...
Ultimately, Black Power reveals a black freedom movement in which the ideals of desegregation through nonviolence and black nationalism marched side by side.
Offering important examples of undocumented histories of black liberation, this volume offers both powerful and poignant examples of 'Black Power Studies' scholarship.
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.