Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic HistoryMr. Allen discusses the relationship between the power elite and Black discontent. He finds very little difference between those motivations and methods which create and maintain colonialism abroad and those which prevent Black self-determination in the UNited States. Mr. Allen examines various programs designed by the power elite to absorb radicalism and encourages its cooperation with the capitalistic structure. He does not see Black capitalism, Negro organization man, foundation grants, business-managed welfare or token political victories as aiding Black liberation but as producing an atmosphere conducive to even more comprehensive exploitation. "The Third World, the underdeveloped world, exists just as surely within America as it does across the seas", concludes Mr. Allen. "In the dialectic between Black and white America, a preview of what may be in store for the world can be glimpsed." (Back cover). |
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... Black power was slowly but relentlessly coming to be equated with the power of black business . This despite the fact that black business had never been a powerful social entity . Most ghetto businesses tend to be marginal operations ...
... Black power was slowly but relentlessly coming to be equated with the power of black business . This despite the fact that black business had never been a powerful social entity . Most ghetto businesses tend to be marginal operations ...
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... black business class exists , it usually is a conservative force rather than a militant advocate of reforms . 9 Ibid . 10 A survey of businesses in San Francisco , for example , pub- lished in November 1968 , found that " black ...
... black business class exists , it usually is a conservative force rather than a militant advocate of reforms . 9 Ibid . 10 A survey of businesses in San Francisco , for example , pub- lished in November 1968 , found that " black ...
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... Black Power into business . Thus for Harlem CORE , at least , black power very definitely came to mean the power of black business . Unfortunately for CORE , as was noted earlier , the power of black business is mostly an illusion , since ...
... Black Power into business . Thus for Harlem CORE , at least , black power very definitely came to mean the power of black business . Unfortunately for CORE , as was noted earlier , the power of black business is mostly an illusion , since ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Social Context of Black Power | 21 |
Black Nationalism | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History Robert L. Allen No preview available - 1990 |
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