Black Power: Politics of Liberation in AmericaAn eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published. A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order. |
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Page xvii
... people with time to spare, who feel no particular sense of urgency about the need to solve certain ... people in America have no time to play nice, polite parlor games— especially when the lives of their children are at stake. Some white ...
... people with time to spare, who feel no particular sense of urgency about the need to solve certain ... people in America have no time to play nice, polite parlor games— especially when the lives of their children are at stake. Some white ...
Page xix
... people in Africa begin to storm Johannesburg, what will be the role of this nation—and of black people here? It seems inevitable that this nation would move to protect its financial interests in South Africa, which means protecting white ...
... people in Africa begin to storm Johannesburg, what will be the role of this nation—and of black people here? It seems inevitable that this nation would move to protect its financial interests in South Africa, which means protecting white ...
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... whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white community against the black community. We call these individual racism and institutional racism. The first consists of overt acts by indi. viduals, which cause death ...
... whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white community against the black community. We call these individual racism and institutional racism. The first consists of overt acts by indi. viduals, which cause death ...
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... White, What we are discovering, in short, is that the United States—all of it, North as well as South, West as well ... people in this country form a colony, and it is not in the interest of the colonial power to liberate them. Black people ...
... White, What we are discovering, in short, is that the United States—all of it, North as well as South, West as well ... people in this country form a colony, and it is not in the interest of the colonial power to liberate them. Black people ...
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... white inhabit the same land—with blacks subordinated to whites just as in the English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish colonies. It is the objective ... people—the “white power structure.” There - 6 D B L A C K P o W. E. R..
... white inhabit the same land—with blacks subordinated to whites just as in the English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish colonies. It is the objective ... people—the “white power structure.” There - 6 D B L A C K P o W. E. R..
Contents
ITS NEED AND SUBSTANCE | 34 |
THE MYTHS OF COALITION | 58 |
THE POLITICS | 123 |
DYNAMITE IN THE CHETTO | 146 |
THE SEARCH FOR NEW FORMS | 164 |
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