We Are Not What We Seem : Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century / Roderick D. Bush.
Bush, Roderick D., author.
2000
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Title We Are Not What We Seem : Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century / Roderick D. Bush.
Author Bush, Roderick D., author.
ISBN 9780814738054
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814738054.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2000]
Copyright ©2000
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814738054.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896/073
Summary An "Indispensable" Book of The Black World Today website Much has been written about the Black Power movement in the United States. Most of this work, however, tends to focus on the personalities of the movement. In We Are Not What We Seem, Roderick D. Bush takes a fresh look at Black Power and other African American social movements with a specific emphasis on the role of the urban poor in the struggle for Black rights. Bush traces the trajectory of African American social movements from the time Booker T. Washington to the present, providing an integrated discussion of class. He addresses questions crucial to any understanding of Black politics: Is the Black Power movement simply another version of the traditional American ethnic politics, or does it have wider social import? What role has the federal government played in implicitly grooming social conservatives like Louis Farrakhan to assume leadership positions as opposed to leftist, grassroots, class-oriented leaders? Bush avoids the traditional liberal and social democratic approaches in favor of a more universalistic perspective that offers new insights into the history of Black movements in the U.S.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reassessing Black Power
1 The Contemporary Crisis
2 Nothing but a Black Thing? The Black Freedom Struggle in Context
3 The Washington-Du Bois Conflict: African American Social Movements in the "Age of Imperialism," 1890-World War I
4 World War I and the Deepening and Blackening of American Radicalism
5 From the Great Depression to World War II: The Recomposition of White-Black Alliance
6 The American Century: Labor Peace, Hegemony, and Civil Rights
7 The Crisis of U.S. Hegemony and the Transformation from Civil Rights to Black Liberation
8 The Future of Black Liberation and Social Change in the United States
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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