Is it nation time? : contemporary essays on black power and black nationalism / edited by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

United States.

History.

Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.

Black nationalism.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2002]

Summary:

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Power movement provided the dominant ideological framework through which many young, poor, and middle-class blacks made sense of their lives and articulated a political vision for their futures. The legacy of the movement is still very much with us today in the various strands of black nationalism that originated from it; we witnessed its power in the 1995 Million Man March, and we see its more ambiguous effects in the persistent antagonisms among former participants in the civil rights coalition. Yet despite the importance of the Black Power movement, very few in-depth, balanced treatments of it exist. "Is It Nation Time?" gathers new and classic essays on the Black Power movement and its legacy by renowned thinkers who deal rigorously and unsentimentally with such issues as the commodification of blackness, the piety of cultural recovery, and class tensions within the movement. For anyone who wants to understand the roots of the complex political and cultural desires of contemporary black America, this will be an essential collection.

Contents:

Introduction : Black power revisited / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

The paradox of the African American rebellion / Cornel West

Black particularity reconsidered / Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

Stormy weather : reconstructing Black (inter)nationalism in the Cold War era / Robin D.G. Kelley

Reflecting Black : Zimbabwe and U.S. Black nationalism / Gerald Horne

Conflict and chorus : reconsidering Toni Cade's "The Black Woman : An Anthology" / Farah Jasmine Griffin

Africa on my mind : gender, counter discourse, and African American nationalism / E. Frances White

Standing in for the state : Black nationalism and "writing" the Black subject / Wahneema Lubiano

Nationalism and social division in Black arts poetry of the 1960s / Phillip Brian Harper

"Black is back, and it's bound to sell!" : nationalist desire and the production of Black popular culture / S. Craig Watkins

After "The Fire Next Time" : James Baldwin's postconsensus double bind / Will Walker

Theses on black nationalism / Jeffrey Stout.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index.

ISBN:

0226298213

9780226298214

0226298221

9780226298221

OCLC:

47844402

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