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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778342403321

Autore

Johnson Cedric <1971->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8166-5373-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

322.4089/96073

Soggetti

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

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : all power to the people? -- Black power and African American politics -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the major political and intellectual currents from the Black Power era to the present, Cedric Johnson reveals how black political life conformed to liberal democratic capitalism and how the movement's most radical aims were eclipsed by more moderate aspirations.Documenting the historical retreat from democratic struggle,



Revolutionaries to Race Leaders ultimately calls for the renewal of popular resistance and class-conscious politics.