Soul power : culture, radicalism, and the making of a U.S. Third World left / Cynthia A. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Cynthia Ann, 1969-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

Minorities--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Minorities.

African American political activists--History--20th century.

African American political activists.

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

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

Radicalism.

Social justice--United States--History--20th century.

Social justice.

Anti-imperialist movements--Developing countries--History--20th century.

Anti-imperialist movements.

Developing countries--Politics and government--20th century.

Developing countries.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A cultural history of activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the ""long 1960s.""

Contents:

Havana up in Harlem and down in Monroe : armed revolt and the making of a cultural revolution

Union power, soul power : class struggle by cultural means

Newsreel : rethinking the filmmaking arm of the new left

Third World newsreel visualizes the internal colony

Angela Y. Davis and U.S. Third World left theory and praxis

Shot in Watts : film and state violence in the 1970s.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-293) and index.

ISBN:

9780822336792

0822336790

OCLC:

317321955