Black power : radical politics and African American identity / Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G.

Series:

Reconfiguring American political history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)--History.

Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.).

Black Panther Party--History.

Black Panther Party.

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

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

United States.

African Americans--Race identity.

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

Black power.

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

Black nationalism.

Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

Physical Description:

x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Drawing on deep archival research and interviews, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar reconsiders the commingled stories of the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and mainstream civil rights leaders. He finds that black nationalism was more favorably received among African Americans than historians have previously acknowledged, concluding that Black Power had more lasting cultural consequences among African Americans than the civil rights movement.

Contents:

Introduction: For the People and of the People: Black Nationalism, Identity, and Popular Culture 1

Chapter 1 An Organization of the Living: The Nation of Islam and Black Popular Culture 11

Chapter 2 "There Go My People": The Civil Rights Movement, Black Nationalism, and Black Power 37

Chapter 3 A Party for the People: The Black Freedom Movement and the Rise of the Black Panther Party 69

Chapter 4 Swimming with the Masses: The Black Panthers, Lumpenism, and Revolutionary Culture 93

Chapter 5 "Move Over or We'll Move Over on You": Black Power and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement 123

Chapter 6 Rainbow Radicalism: The Rise of Radical Ethnic Nationalism 159

Conclusion: Power and the People 191

Epilogue: Black Nationalism after Jim Crow 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-249) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

0801879574

OCLC:

54046493