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.