Black Power Encyclopedia
From "Black Is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings [2 volumes]
Published on 11. July 2018
Book
Hardback
1056 pages
978-1-4408-4006-7 (ISBN)
Description
An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the movement's influence on Black communities in America from 1965 to the mid-1970s.
Unlike the Civil Rights Movement's emphasis on the rhetoric and practice of nonviolence and social and political goal of integration, Black Power was defined by the promotion of Black self-determination, Black consciousness, independent Black politics, and the practice of armed self-defense. Black Power changed communities, curriculums, and culture in the United States and served as an inspiration for social justice internationally. This unique two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of Black Power's important role in the turbulence, social change, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in America and how the concepts of the movement continue to influence contemporary Black politics, culture, and identity.
Cross-disciplinary and broad in its approach, Black Power Encyclopedia: From "Black Is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States some 50 years ago. The entries examine the key players, organizations and institutions, trends, and events of the period, enabling readers to better understand the ways in which African Americans broke through racial barriers, developed a positive identity, and began to feel united through racial pride and the formation of important social change organizations. The encyclopedia also covers the important impact of the more militant segments of the movement, such as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers.
Unlike the Civil Rights Movement's emphasis on the rhetoric and practice of nonviolence and social and political goal of integration, Black Power was defined by the promotion of Black self-determination, Black consciousness, independent Black politics, and the practice of armed self-defense. Black Power changed communities, curriculums, and culture in the United States and served as an inspiration for social justice internationally. This unique two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of Black Power's important role in the turbulence, social change, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in America and how the concepts of the movement continue to influence contemporary Black politics, culture, and identity.
Cross-disciplinary and broad in its approach, Black Power Encyclopedia: From "Black Is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States some 50 years ago. The entries examine the key players, organizations and institutions, trends, and events of the period, enabling readers to better understand the ways in which African Americans broke through racial barriers, developed a positive identity, and began to feel united through racial pride and the formation of important social change organizations. The encyclopedia also covers the important impact of the more militant segments of the movement, such as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers.
Reviews / Votes
This outstanding portrait of a fascinating and influential chapter of American life is indispensable for any library serving those interested in African American studies, cultural studies, and race relations. * Library Journal, Starred Review * Umoja, Stanford, and Young, all prominent Africana studies scholars, gathered a wide range of contributors . . . bringing a balance of academic expertise and community activism to the clearly written, well-documented essays on people, places, and events in the Black Power Movement. . . . Historical perspective, updated information, cross references, and suggestions for further reading make the work valuable for both contemporary understanding and for providing a pathway to additional political and cultural research on the movement. Overview essays and an accurate, detailed index further thereference value. An excellent choice for high school, college, and public libraries. * Booklist, Starred Review * This attractive two-volume set is an ideal gateway for students who want to begin researching the people, events, and philosophies of the Black Power movement in the U.S. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended for high school, college, and university libraries. * Choice * Excellent . . . this set is essential for U.S. cultural history collections. * ARBA *
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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With dust jacket
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42 bw illus
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Height: 259 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 74 mm
Weight
2517 gr
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978-1-4408-4006-7 (9781440840067)
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Akinyele Umoja | Karin L. Stanford | Jasmin A. Young
Black Power Encyclopedia
From "Black is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings [2 Volumes]
E-Book
07/2018
Greenwood Press
€155.99
Available for download
Akinyele Umoja | Karin L. Stanford | Jasmin A. Young
Black Power Encyclopedia
From "Black is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings [2 Volumes]
E-Book
07/2018
Greenwood Press
€155.99
Available for download
Persons
Akinyele Umoja is a professor and chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University.
Karin L. Stanford, PhD, is professor of Africana studies at California State University, Northridge.
Jasmin A. Young is a historian of 20th-century African American history with specializations in women and gender.
Karin L. Stanford, PhD, is professor of Africana studies at California State University, Northridge.
Jasmin A. Young is a historian of 20th-century African American history with specializations in women and gender.
Content
Introduction
Chronology
Overview Essays
Armed Resistance in the Black Power Movement
Black Power, Red Power, and the Potential of Red-Black Unity
Black Power Studies
Gender, Black Women, and Black Power
Urban Rebellions
Entries
Abubakari, Dara (Virginia Collins) (1915-2011)
African Liberation Support Committee
Afro Set Black Nationalist Party for Self-Defense (1967-1973)
Alabama Black Liberation Front
Ali, Muhammad (1942-2016)
All-African People's Revolutionary Party
Assassinations
Attica Prison Rebellion
Baker, General Gordon, Jr. (1941-2014)
Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995)
Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones) (1934-2014)
Black Aesthetic
Black Arts Movement
Black Bookstores
Black Churches
Black Economic Union
Black Internationalism
"Black Is Beautiful"
Black Liberation Army
Black Marxism (Book)
Black Music
Black Panther Party
Black Power Abroad
Black Power Conferences
Black Prisoner Activism
Black Psychology
Black Student Activism
Black Student Alliance
Black Studies
Black United Front
Black Women's Alliance/Third World Women's Alliance (1970-1975)
Blaxploitation Films
Boggs, James (1919-1993) and Grace Lee (1915-2015)
Bond, Julian (1940-2015)
Bremond, Walter (1934-1982)
Brown, Elaine (1943-)
Brown, Hubert "H. Rap" (1943-)
Brown, James (1933-2006)
Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture) (1941-1998)
Carter, Alprentice "Bunchy" (1942-1969)
Che Lumumba Club
Chisholm, Shirley (1924-2005)
Cleaver, Kathleen Neal (1945-)
Coltrane, John (1926-1967)
Combahee River Collective
Committee for Unified Newark (1968-1976)
Communist International and Black Power
Cone, James Hal (1938-)
Congress of African People (1970-1979)
Congress of Racial Equality
Council of Independent Black Institutions
Counterintelligence Program
Cuban Revolution (1953-1959)
Cultural Nationalism
Davis, Angela Yvonne (1944-)
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Douglas, Emory (1943-)
Edwards, Harry (1942-)
Electoral Politics and Black Power
Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
Forman, James (1928-2005)
Fuller, Hoyt (1923-1981)
Garvin, Victoria "Vicki" Ama (1915-2007)
Giovanni, Nikki (1943-)
Group on Advanced Leadership (1961-1965)
Hampton, Fred, Sr. (1948-1969)
Hare, Nathan (1933-)
Hatcher, Richard (1933-)
House of Umoja
Institute of the Black World
Jackson, George L. (1941-1971)
Jackson, Jesse L., Sr. (1941-)
Jackson, Maynard Holbrook (1938-2003)
Jackson State Massacre (May 14, 1970)
Johnson, Nelson (1943-)
Karenga, Maulana (1941-)
Kawaida
Kennedy, Florynce "Flo" (1916-2000)
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)
Kiswahili
Kochiyama, Yuri (1921-2014)
Koen, Charles E., Jr. (1945-)
Kwanzaa
Kwayana, Tchaiko (1937-2017)
Last Poets
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Lowndes County Freedom Organization
Lumumba, Chokwe (1947-2014)
Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee) (1942-)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Malcolm X Liberation University
Mallory, Mae (1927-2007)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
March Against Fear
McKissick, Floyd B., Sr. (1922-1991)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Moore, Carlos (1942-)
Moore, "Queen Mother" Audley (1898-1997)
National Black Economic Development Conference and the Black Manifesto
National Black Feminist Organization
National Black Political Assembly
National Black United Fund, Inc.
National Conference of Black Lawyers
National Welfare Rights Organization
Nation of Islam
Neal, Larry (1937-1981)
Newton, Huey P. (1942-1989)
Obadele, Gaidi (Milton Henry) (1919-2006)
Obadele, Imari A. (Richard Henry) (1930-2010)
Ocean Hill-Brownsville Campaign for Community Control of Schools
Olympic Project for Human Rights
Operation Breadbasket
Pan-Africanism
Parks, Rosa (1913-2005)
Police Brutality
Political Prisoners and Exiles
Political Prisoners of the Black Power Movement
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)
Pratt, Geronimo ji-Jaga (1947-2011)
Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa
Publications
Religion and Black Power
Reparations
Revolutionary Action Movement
Revolutionary Nationalism
Richardson, Gloria (1922-)
Ricks, Willie (1943-)
Rodney, Walter (1942-1980)
Sadaukai, Owusu (Howard Fuller) (1941-)
Salaam, Kalamu ya (1947-)
Sanchez, Sonia (1934-)
Scott-Heron, Gil (1949-2011)
Seale, Bobby (1936-)
Shakur, Assata (1947-)
Shakur, Mutulu (Jarel Williams) (1950-)
Shields, Rudy (1931-1987)
Sixth Pan-African Congress
Smith, Barbara (1946-)
Smith-Robinson, Ruby Doris (1942-1967)
Stanford, Max (Muhammad Ahmad) (1941-)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student Organization for Black Unity
Students for a Democratic Society
Sunni-Ali, Fulani (1948-2016)
Toure, Askia (1938-)
Towards a Black University Conference
UHURU
United Front, The
Us Organization
Vietnam War
Waller, Joseph (Omali Yeshitela) (1941-)
Walters, Ronald W. (1938-2010)
Wattstax
Williams, Mabel (1931-2014)
Williams, Robert F. (1925-1996)
Wright, Nathan, Jr. (1923-2005)
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Chronology
Overview Essays
Armed Resistance in the Black Power Movement
Black Power, Red Power, and the Potential of Red-Black Unity
Black Power Studies
Gender, Black Women, and Black Power
Urban Rebellions
Entries
Abubakari, Dara (Virginia Collins) (1915-2011)
African Liberation Support Committee
Afro Set Black Nationalist Party for Self-Defense (1967-1973)
Alabama Black Liberation Front
Ali, Muhammad (1942-2016)
All-African People's Revolutionary Party
Assassinations
Attica Prison Rebellion
Baker, General Gordon, Jr. (1941-2014)
Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995)
Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones) (1934-2014)
Black Aesthetic
Black Arts Movement
Black Bookstores
Black Churches
Black Economic Union
Black Internationalism
"Black Is Beautiful"
Black Liberation Army
Black Marxism (Book)
Black Music
Black Panther Party
Black Power Abroad
Black Power Conferences
Black Prisoner Activism
Black Psychology
Black Student Activism
Black Student Alliance
Black Studies
Black United Front
Black Women's Alliance/Third World Women's Alliance (1970-1975)
Blaxploitation Films
Boggs, James (1919-1993) and Grace Lee (1915-2015)
Bond, Julian (1940-2015)
Bremond, Walter (1934-1982)
Brown, Elaine (1943-)
Brown, Hubert "H. Rap" (1943-)
Brown, James (1933-2006)
Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture) (1941-1998)
Carter, Alprentice "Bunchy" (1942-1969)
Che Lumumba Club
Chisholm, Shirley (1924-2005)
Cleaver, Kathleen Neal (1945-)
Coltrane, John (1926-1967)
Combahee River Collective
Committee for Unified Newark (1968-1976)
Communist International and Black Power
Cone, James Hal (1938-)
Congress of African People (1970-1979)
Congress of Racial Equality
Council of Independent Black Institutions
Counterintelligence Program
Cuban Revolution (1953-1959)
Cultural Nationalism
Davis, Angela Yvonne (1944-)
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Douglas, Emory (1943-)
Edwards, Harry (1942-)
Electoral Politics and Black Power
Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
Forman, James (1928-2005)
Fuller, Hoyt (1923-1981)
Garvin, Victoria "Vicki" Ama (1915-2007)
Giovanni, Nikki (1943-)
Group on Advanced Leadership (1961-1965)
Hampton, Fred, Sr. (1948-1969)
Hare, Nathan (1933-)
Hatcher, Richard (1933-)
House of Umoja
Institute of the Black World
Jackson, George L. (1941-1971)
Jackson, Jesse L., Sr. (1941-)
Jackson, Maynard Holbrook (1938-2003)
Jackson State Massacre (May 14, 1970)
Johnson, Nelson (1943-)
Karenga, Maulana (1941-)
Kawaida
Kennedy, Florynce "Flo" (1916-2000)
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)
Kiswahili
Kochiyama, Yuri (1921-2014)
Koen, Charles E., Jr. (1945-)
Kwanzaa
Kwayana, Tchaiko (1937-2017)
Last Poets
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Lowndes County Freedom Organization
Lumumba, Chokwe (1947-2014)
Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee) (1942-)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Malcolm X Liberation University
Mallory, Mae (1927-2007)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
March Against Fear
McKissick, Floyd B., Sr. (1922-1991)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Moore, Carlos (1942-)
Moore, "Queen Mother" Audley (1898-1997)
National Black Economic Development Conference and the Black Manifesto
National Black Feminist Organization
National Black Political Assembly
National Black United Fund, Inc.
National Conference of Black Lawyers
National Welfare Rights Organization
Nation of Islam
Neal, Larry (1937-1981)
Newton, Huey P. (1942-1989)
Obadele, Gaidi (Milton Henry) (1919-2006)
Obadele, Imari A. (Richard Henry) (1930-2010)
Ocean Hill-Brownsville Campaign for Community Control of Schools
Olympic Project for Human Rights
Operation Breadbasket
Pan-Africanism
Parks, Rosa (1913-2005)
Police Brutality
Political Prisoners and Exiles
Political Prisoners of the Black Power Movement
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)
Pratt, Geronimo ji-Jaga (1947-2011)
Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa
Publications
Religion and Black Power
Reparations
Revolutionary Action Movement
Revolutionary Nationalism
Richardson, Gloria (1922-)
Ricks, Willie (1943-)
Rodney, Walter (1942-1980)
Sadaukai, Owusu (Howard Fuller) (1941-)
Salaam, Kalamu ya (1947-)
Sanchez, Sonia (1934-)
Scott-Heron, Gil (1949-2011)
Seale, Bobby (1936-)
Shakur, Assata (1947-)
Shakur, Mutulu (Jarel Williams) (1950-)
Shields, Rudy (1931-1987)
Sixth Pan-African Congress
Smith, Barbara (1946-)
Smith-Robinson, Ruby Doris (1942-1967)
Stanford, Max (Muhammad Ahmad) (1941-)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student Organization for Black Unity
Students for a Democratic Society
Sunni-Ali, Fulani (1948-2016)
Toure, Askia (1938-)
Towards a Black University Conference
UHURU
United Front, The
Us Organization
Vietnam War
Waller, Joseph (Omali Yeshitela) (1941-)
Walters, Ronald W. (1938-2010)
Wattstax
Williams, Mabel (1931-2014)
Williams, Robert F. (1925-1996)
Wright, Nathan, Jr. (1923-2005)
About the Editors and Contributors
Index