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Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics

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Description for Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.

The Black Power movement represented a key turning point in American politics. Disenchanted by the hollow progress of federal desegregation during the 1960s, many black citizens and leaders across the United States demanded meaningful self-determination. The popular movement they created was marked by a vigorous artistic renaissance, militant political action, and fierce ideological debate.

 

Exploring the major political and intellectual currents from the Black Power era to the present, Cedric Johnson reveals how black political life gradually conformed to liberal democratic capitalism and how the movement’s most radical aims—the rejection of white aesthetic standards, redefinition of black identity, solidarity with ... Read more

 

 

Johnson offers a compelling and theoretically sophisticated critique of the rhetoric and strategies that emerged in this period. Drawing on extensive archival research, he reinterprets the place of key intellectual figures, such as Harold Cruse and Amiri Baraka, and influential organizations, including the African Liberation Support Committee, the National Black Political Assembly, and the National Black Independent Political Party in postsegregation black politics, while at the same time identifying the contradictions of Black Power radicalism itself.

 

Documenting the historical retreat from radical, democratic struggle, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders ultimately calls for the renewal of popular struggle and class-conscious politics.

 

Cedric Johnson is assistant professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816644780
SKU
V9780816644780
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About Cedric Johnson
Cedric Johnson is associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Minnesota, 2007).

Reviews for Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics
"Revolutionaries to Race Leaders is a thought-provoking and challenging read. Johnson’s understanding of Marxist-Leninist ideology and its representation in the Black Power era and afterward is impressive, as is his retelling of the struggles to create powerful black political organizations and their larger social meaning to American society in the latter part of the twentieth century." —African American Review

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