Futures of Black power : reimagining the Black past / edited by Anthony M. Donaldson, Jr. and Madison W. Cates ; foreword by William A. Link.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donaldson,, Anthony M., Jr, editor.

Cates, Madison W., editor.

Link, William, writer of foreword.

Series:

Frontiers of the American South.

Frontiers of the American South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black power--United States.

Black power.

African Americans--Civil rights--United States.

African Americans.

African Americans--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 114 pages).

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2025.

Summary:

"This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In essays interspersed with oral history interviews, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future"-- Provided by publisher.

"Illustrating new frameworks for recognizing and studying Black Power and Black radicalism Rewriting narratives that present Black Power as related but marginal to the Civil Rights Movement, this book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In this collection, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future. In Futures of Black Power, Ashley Farmer offers a framework for developing Black Power archives, Jasmin Young makes the case for oral history collections dedicated to the study of the movement, and D'Weston Haywood discusses Afrofuturist underpinnings in the Nation of Islam. Interspersed with their essays are oral history interviews with activists Kathleen Cleaver, Mae Mallory, Mabel Williams, and Nikki Giovanni. These essays and primary sources show how today's scholars of Black Power are incorporating memory studies, gender studies, and intellectual histories, and they point the way forward to new avenues for research and public engagement. They collectively illustrate the need to preserve and remember the variety of voices, actions, and imaginings that constitute Black Power, elements of Black history that are often ignored or forgotten. A volume in the series Frontiers of the American South, edited by William A. Link Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / William A. Link

Introduction / Anthony M. Donaldson Jr. and Madison W. Cates

From "Freedom Now!" to "Black Power" : An Oral History Interview with Kathleen Cleaver

Reflections On The Black Power Archive / Ashley D. Farmer

"This is Exactly What's Needed" : An Oral History Interview with Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

The Case for a Black Power Oral History Digital Archive / Jasmin A. Young

"Everybody's Born for Something" : An Oral History Interview with Mabel Williams

"Mr. Muhammad Says All of This is Possible for You and Me" : Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks, and Black Nationalism during the Space Age / D'Weston Haywood

Excerpt of Elijah Muhammad's Address from Muhammad Speaks (1962)

"Strength in Your Own Voice" : An Oral History Interview with Nikki Giovanni.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-7147-X

0-8130-7097-X