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Revolutionaries to race leaders [electronic resource] : Black power and the making of African American politics / Cedric Johnson.

By: Johnson, Cedric, 1971-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007Description: xl, 294 p.Subject(s): African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | African American leadership -- History -- 20th century | African American political activists -- History -- 20th century | African American intellectuals -- History -- 20th century | Revolutionaries -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 322.4089/96073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction : all power to the people? -- Black power and African American politics -- The "Negro revolution" and Cold War America : revolutionary politics and racial conservatism in the work of Harold Cruse -- Return of the native : Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), the new nationalism, and Black power politics -- The convention strategy and conventional politics : the 1972 Gary convention and the limits of racial unity -- From popular anti-imperialism to sectarianism : the African Liberation Day mobilizations and radical intellectuals -- Radical departures : the National Black Political Assembly, the National Black Independent Political Party, and the struggle for alternatives -- Conclusion : the ends of Black politics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : all power to the people? -- Black power and African American politics -- The "Negro revolution" and Cold War America : revolutionary politics and racial conservatism in the work of Harold Cruse -- Return of the native : Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), the new nationalism, and Black power politics -- The convention strategy and conventional politics : the 1972 Gary convention and the limits of racial unity -- From popular anti-imperialism to sectarianism : the African Liberation Day mobilizations and radical intellectuals -- Radical departures : the National Black Political Assembly, the National Black Independent Political Party, and the struggle for alternatives -- Conclusion : the ends of Black politics.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.