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Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism

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Its original leaders, Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks, were Black Nationalists, advocating a militant and extremist approach to tackle racism, while other leaders, such as Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers, believed that the struggle for Black Power was essentially a class struggle. Beginning with the folk-narratives told through song by slaves in the plantations, through the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, the era of Malcolm X, the African-American art and fashion of the late sixties and 'soul music' and politics in the 1970s, Black Power and the American People will be the first comprehensive cultural history of the movement.

Author(s): Rafael Torrubia
Series: Library of Modern American History
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 352
City: London