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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454485203321

Autore

Hill Collins Patricia

Titolo

From Black power to hip hop [[electronic resource] ] : racism, nationalism, and feminism / / Patricia Hill Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-282-73246-3

9786612732461

1-59213-790-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Politics, history, and social change

Disciplina

305.896/073

Soggetti

African American women - Social conditions

African Americans - Politics and government

African Americans - Race identity

African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-

Afrocentrism - United States

Ethnicity - United States

Feminism - United States

Nationalism - United States

Racism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Black Power to Hip Hop; I Race, Family, and the U.S. Nation-State; II Ethnicity, Culture, and Black Nationalist Politics; III Feminism, Nationalism, and African American Women; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a ""new"" racism and call for new political responses to it. Using the experiences of African American women and men as a touchstone for analysis, Patricia Hill Collins examines new forms of racism as well as political responses to it.In this incisive and



stimulating book, renowned social theorist Patricia Hill Collins investigates how nationalism has operated and re-emerged in the wake of contemporary globalization and offers an interpretatio