Black Nationalism in American Politics and ThoughtBlack Nationalism in American Politics and Thought revisits the activism and arguments in support of separate black statehood from the mid-19th century to the present, detaili ng the ways black nationalism mirrors broader currents in U.S. politics and thought. This book challenges the idea that black nationalism is a timeless, unchanging, and anti-assimilationist impulse. It argues that black nationalism in the United States draws on analogous political strategy and thinking unique to specific historical eras--often inadvertently reproducing strategies and thinking responsible for racial inequality in the first place. |
Contents
AngloAfrican Nationalism | 8 |
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam | 34 |
Black Nationalist Organizations in the Civil Rights Era | 51 |
Black Nationalist Discourse | 70 |
Black Nationalism as Ethnic Pluralism | 88 |
Black Nationalism and the Ethnic Paradigm | 104 |
Black Nationalism in the Contemporary Era | 118 |
Notes | 137 |
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