Revolutionaries to race leaders [electronic resource] : Black power and the making of African American politics / Cedric Johnson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Cedric, 1971-
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
Subjects:
African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Black power > United States > History > 20th century.
Radicalism > United States > History > 20th century.
African American leadership > History > 20th century.
African American political activists > History > 20th century.
African American intellectuals > History > 20th century.
Revolutionaries > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2007 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : all power to the people?
  • The "Negro revolution" and Cold War America : revolutionary politics and racial conservatism in the work of Harold Cruse
  • Return of the native : Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), the new nationalism, and Black power politics
  • The convention strategy and conventional politics : the 1972 Gary convention and the limits of racial unity
  • From popular anti-imperialism to sectarianism : the African Liberation Day mobilizations and radical intellectuals
  • Radical departures : the National Black Political Assembly, the National Black Independent Political Party, and the struggle for alternatives
  • Conclusion : the ends of Black politics.