Revolutionaries to race leaders : Black power and the making of African American politics / Cedric Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Cedric, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

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

Black power.

Race relations.

History.

Revolutionaries.

African American intellectuals.

African American political activists.

African American leadership.

United States.

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

Radicalism.

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.

Physical Description:

xl, 294 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction : all power to the people?

The "Negro revolution" and Cold War America : revolutionary politics and racial conservatism in the work of Harold Cruse

Return of the native : Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), the new nationalism, and Black power politics

The convention strategy and conventional politics : the 1972 Gary convention and the limits of racial unity

From popular anti-imperialism to sectarianism : the African Liberation Day mobilizations and radical intellectuals

Radical departures : the National Black Political Assembly, the National Black Independent Political Party, and the struggle for alternatives

Conclusion : the ends of Black politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780816644773

0816644772

9780816644780

0816644780

OCLC:

85813966