Mainstreaming black power / Tom Adam Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Tom Adam, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Black power.

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

African American political activists.

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

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States-and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles-this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. Mainstreaming Black Power shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ultimately to reinforce rather than challenge existing racial, class, and gender hierarchies. This book emphasizes that Black Power's reach and legacies can be understood only in the context of an ideologically diverse black community.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. "A Mouthful of Civil Rights and an Empty Belly": Th e War on Poverty and the Fight for Racial Equality

2. Community Development Corporations, Black Capitalism, and the Mainstreaming of Black Power

3. Black Power and Battles over Education

4. Black Mayors and Black Progress: Th e Limits of Black Political Power

Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965645

0520965647

OCLC:

960905888