Is It Nation Time?
Subtitle: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780226298221
Subjects: American studies; Black studies; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; History: American; USA; Cultural Heritage; Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black; People of Color; 20th century; African Americans; Black nationalism; Black power; History; Politics and government; United States
First sentence: The distinctive feature of African American life in the sixties was the rise on the historical stage of a small yet determined petite bourgeoisie promoting liberal reforms, and the revolt of the masses, whose aspirations exceeded those of liberalism but whose containment was secured by political appeasement, cultural control, and state repression.