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Black Politics/White Power
Yohuru Williams
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Description for Black Politics/White Power
Paperback. The popular media have portrayed the Black Panthers mainly for the rhetoric of violence some members employed and for the associations between the Panthers and a black militancy drawing on racial hostility to whites in general. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
The popular media have portrayed the Black Panthers mainly for the rhetoric of violence some members employed and for the associations between the Panthers and a black militancy drawing on racial hostility to whites in general. Overlooked have been the efforts that branches of the organization undertook for practical economic and social progress within African-American neighborhoods, frequently in alliance with whites. Yohuru Williams' study of black politics in New Haven culminating in the arrival of the Panthers argues that the increasing militancy in the black community there was motivated not by abstractions of black cultural integrity but by the continuing ... Read more
The popular media have portrayed the Black Panthers mainly for the rhetoric of violence some members employed and for the associations between the Panthers and a black militancy drawing on racial hostility to whites in general. Overlooked have been the efforts that branches of the organization undertook for practical economic and social progress within African-American neighborhoods, frequently in alliance with whites. Yohuru Williams' study of black politics in New Haven culminating in the arrival of the Panthers argues that the increasing militancy in the black community there was motivated not by abstractions of black cultural integrity but by the continuing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781881089605
SKU
V9781881089605
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Ref
99-50
About Yohuru Williams
Yohuru Williams is Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University. He is the author of A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865 to the Present: Documents and Essays (2002). He also served as an advisor on the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement Back into Teaching Civil Rights. He has two forthcoming books from ... Read more
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