We are an African people [electronic resource] : independent education, black power, and the radical imagination / Russell Rickford.
2016
LC2741 .R54 2016eb
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We are an African people [electronic resource] : independent education, black power, and the radical imagination / Russell Rickford.
ISBN
9780190455637 (electronic book)
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages)
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199861477 doi
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LC2741 .R54 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.82996073
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By 1970, more than 60 'Pan African nationalist' schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, had appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often accused of teaching hate and were routinely harassed by authorities. Yet these institutions served as critical mechanisms for transmitting black consciousness. In this book, based on his Bancroft Award-winning dissertation, historian Russell Rickford traces the brief lives of these autonomous black institutions created to claim some of the self-determination that the integrationist civil rights movement had failed to provide.
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By 1970, more than 60 'Pan African nationalist' schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, had appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often accused of teaching hate and were routinely harassed by authorities. Yet these institutions served as critical mechanisms for transmitting black consciousness. In this book, based on his Bancroft Award-winning dissertation, historian Russell Rickford traces the brief lives of these autonomous black institutions created to claim some of the self-determination that the integrationist civil rights movement had failed to provide.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination
Community Control and the Struggle for Black Education in the 1960s
Black Studies and the Politics of "Relevance"
The Evolution of Movement Schools
African Restoration and the Promise and Pitfalls of Cultural Politics
The Maturation of Pan African Nationalism
The Black University and the "Total Community"
The End of Illusions
Epilogue : Afrocentrism and the Neoliberal Ethos.
Community Control and the Struggle for Black Education in the 1960s
Black Studies and the Politics of "Relevance"
The Evolution of Movement Schools
African Restoration and the Promise and Pitfalls of Cultural Politics
The Maturation of Pan African Nationalism
The Black University and the "Total Community"
The End of Illusions
Epilogue : Afrocentrism and the Neoliberal Ethos.