Neighborhood rebels : Black power at the local level /

This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Joseph, Peniel E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Contemporary Black history.
Temas:
Black power > United States > History.
African American political activists > History.
Political participation > United States > History.
Community power > United States > History.
Neighborhoods > United States > History.
City and town life > United States > History.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Black power > États-Unis > Histoire.
Activistes noirs américains > Histoire.
Participation politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Pouvoir communautaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Vie urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Politique et gouvernement.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire.
Political activism > USA.
Black & Asian studies > USA.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
History, Local.
African American political activists
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Politics and government
Black power
City and town life
Community power
Neighborhoods
Political participation
Race relations
Political activism > United States of America, USA.
Ethnic studies > United States of America, USA.
Politics and Government.
United States > Race relations.
United States > History, Local.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
History
Local history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: community organizing, grassroots politics, and neighborhood rebels : local struggles for Black power in America / Peniel E. Joseph
  • Malcolm X's Harlem and early Black power activism / Peniel E. Joseph
  • "Get up off of your knees!" : competing visions of Black empowerment in Milwaukee during the early civil rights era / Patrick D. Jones
  • Black power on the ground : continuity and rupture in St. Louis / Clarence Lang
  • A campus where Black power won : Merritt College and the hidden history of Oakland's Black Panther Party / Donna Murch
  • "'W-A-L-K-O-U-T!" : high school students and the development of Black power in L.A. / Jeanne Theoharis
  • "'We were going to fight fire with fire" : Black power in the South / Simon Wendt
  • Empowerment, consciousness, defense : the diverse meanings of the Black power movement in Louisville, Kentucky / Tracy E. K'Meyer
  • The Black arts movement in Atlanta / James Smethurst
  • Militant Katrina : looking back at Black power / Kent B. Germany
  • The pursuit of audacious power : rebel reformers and neighborhood politics in Baltimore, 1966-1968 / Rhonda Y. Williams.

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