03674nam 2200709 a 450 991077834240332120230721031942.00-8166-5373-9(CKB)1000000000482419(EBL)328371(OCoLC)476125643(SSID)ssj0000237798(PQKBManifestationID)11203267(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237798(PQKBWorkID)10221942(PQKB)11775346(MiAaPQ)EBC328371(OCoLC)191734312(MdBmJHUP)muse39814(Au-PeEL)EBL328371(CaPaEBR)ebr10212613(CaONFJC)MIL523313(EXLCZ)99100000000048241920070227d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRevolutionaries to race leaders[electronic resource] Black power and the making of African American politics /Cedric JohnsonMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4478-0 0-8166-4477-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.African AmericansPolitics and government20th centuryBlack powerUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRadicalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican American leadershipHistory20th centuryAfrican American political activistsHistory20th centuryAfrican American intellectualsHistory20th centuryRevolutionariesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsPolitical aspectsHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansPolitics and governmentBlack powerHistoryRadicalismHistoryAfrican American leadershipHistoryAfrican American political activistsHistoryAfrican American intellectualsHistoryRevolutionariesHistory322.4089/96073Johnson Cedric1971-1470869MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778342403321Revolutionaries to race leaders3821645UNINA