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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Page 49
... oppression as a curable malady which was basically foreign to the American social system . Certainly the more sophisticated war opponents and black militants talked about things being wrong with the system , but what they had in mind ...
... oppression as a curable malady which was basically foreign to the American social system . Certainly the more sophisticated war opponents and black militants talked about things being wrong with the system , but what they had in mind ...
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... oppressed people becomes aware of its oppression , yet sees no secular or “ normal ” means of redress , then " revolutionary millenarianism poses a radical alternative - albeit utopian and concocted out of ritual eschatological fantasy ...
... oppressed people becomes aware of its oppression , yet sees no secular or “ normal ” means of redress , then " revolutionary millenarianism poses a radical alternative - albeit utopian and concocted out of ritual eschatological fantasy ...
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... oppression of the or- dinary ghetto dweller . What CORE and the cultural na- tionalists seek is not an end to oppression , but the transfer of the oppressive apparatus into their own hands . They call themselves nationalists and exploit ...
... oppression of the or- dinary ghetto dweller . What CORE and the cultural na- tionalists seek is not an end to oppression , but the transfer of the oppressive apparatus into their own hands . They call themselves nationalists and exploit ...
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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