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Mainstreaming Black Power
Tom Adam Davies
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Description for Mainstreaming Black Power
Paperback. Retelling the story of the decades across the United States in New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local funds during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States-and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles-this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. Mainstreaming Black Power shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ... Read more
Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States-and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles-this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. Mainstreaming Black Power shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520292116
SKU
V9780520292116
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About Tom Adam Davies
Tom Adam Davies is Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex.
Reviews for Mainstreaming Black Power
Davies has re-created a series of nuanced, and often surprising, conversations that complicate our understanding of Black Power as an ideology and as a political movement. In so doing, he also offers a fresh perspective on inequality and exclusion in post- 1960s America.
(06/01/2018)
(06/01/2018)