Black Power : : Radical Politics and African American Identity

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Call Number: Black Studies 323.119 Og
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Preface to the updated edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Introduction: For the people and of the people : black nationalism, identity, and popular culture -- An organization of the living : the nation of Islam and black popular culture -- "There go my people" : the Civil Rights movement, black nationalism, and black power -- A party for the people : the black freedom movement and the rise of the Black Panther party -- Swimming with the masses : the Black Panthers, Lumpenism, and revolutionary culture -- "Move over or we'll move over on you" : Black Power and the decline of the Civil Rights movement -- Rainbow radicalism : the rise of radical ethnic nationalism -- Power and the people -- Black nationalism after Jim Crow.
In the 1960s and 70s, the two most important black nationalist organizations, the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party, gave voice and agency to the most economically and politically isolated members of black communities outside the South. Though vilified as fringe and extremist, these movements proved to be formidable agents of influence during the civil rights era, ultimately giving birth to the Black Power movement. Drawing on deep archival research and interviews with key participants, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar reconsiders the commingled stories of - and popular reactions to - the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and mainstream civil rights leaders. This updated edition of Ogbar's classic work contains a new preface that describes the book's genesis and links the Black Power movement to the Black Lives Matter movement. A thoroughly updated essay on sources contains a comprehensive review of Black Power-related scholarship. Ultimately, Black Power reveals a black freedom movement in which the ideals of desegregation through nonviolence and black nationalism marched side by side.

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