Achieving blackness : race, Black nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the twentieth century / Algernon Austin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Austin, Algernon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
• Black nationalism.
• African Americans--Race identity.
• History.
• Afrocentrism.
• United States.
• Afrocentrism--United States--History--20th century.
• Black Muslims--History--20th century.
• Black Muslims.
• African Americans--Race identity--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2006]

Contents:

• Making races
• Asiatic identity in the Nation of Islam
• Achieving blackness during the Black power era
• The racial structures of Black power
• The racial ideology of Afrocentrism
• Conservative Black nationalism in the Afrocentric era
• Change in Black nationalism in the 20th century
• Making races, making ethnicities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-281) and index.

ISBN:

• 0814707076
• 0814707084

OCLC:

62152804

Publisher Number:

• 9780814707074
• 9780814707081