Voices in Black Political Thought

Voices in Black Political Thought
ISBN-10
0820472999
ISBN-13
9780820472997
Category
Political Science
Pages
163
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Peter Lang
Author
Ricky K. Green

Description

The Black community has historically suffered stasis on the political level. W.E.B. Du Bois originally identified the source of the stasis as a contradiction of political goals within individuals and Black culture. During the last century, the development of African American political organizations has institutionalized this «contradiction of double aims». That institutionalization is largely due to the energy and resources of two distinct and often contradicting political traditions - Black nationalism and the Black American Jeremiad. It is within a third tradition, Black cultural pluralism, that a possible discourse exists that can address the stasis within the Black community. This book attempts to reconstruct the development of this third tradition and posits it as the most viable source of Black political development.

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