Revolutionaries to race leaders
Subtitle: Black power and the making of African American politics
By: Cedric Johnson.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816644773; 9780816644780
Subjects: African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African American leadership -- History -- 20th century; African American political activists -- History -- 20th century; African American intellectuals -- History -- 20th century; Revolutionaries -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : all power to the people?; title: Black power and African American politics; title: The "Negro revolution" and Cold War America : revolutionary politics and racial conservatism in the work of Harold Cruse; title: Return of the native : Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), the new nationalism, and Black power politics; title: The convention strategy and conventional politics : the 1972 Gary convention and the limits of racial unity; title: From popular anti-imperialism to sectarianism : the African Liberation Day mobilizations and radical intellectuals; title: Radical departures : the National Black Political Assembly, the National Black Independent Political Party, and the struggle for alternatives; title: Conclusion : the ends of Black politics.