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"An important study of the history of Black Power ideologies.... This thoughtful, provocative, and well-argued work is clearly written and will make a contribution to Black and American intellectual history."
Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University
In a systematic survey of the manifestations and meaning of Black Power in America, John McCartney analyzes the ideology of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s and places it in the context of both African-American and Western political thought. He demonstrates, though an exploration of historic antecedents, how the Black Power versus black mainstream competition of the sixties was not unique in American history. Tracing the evolution of black social and political movements from the 18th century to the present, the author focuses on the ideas and actions of the leaders of each major approach.
Starting with the colonization efforts of the Pan-Negro Nationalist movement in the 18th century, McCartney contrasts the work of Bishop Turner with the opposing integrationist views of Frederick Douglass and his followers. McCartney examines the politics of accommodation espoused by Booker T. Washington; W.E.B. Du Bois's opposition to this apolitical stance; the formation of the NAACP, the Urban League, and other integrationist organizations; and Marcus Garvey's reawakening of the separatist ideal in the early 20th century. Focusing on the intense legal activity of the NAACP from the 1930s to the 1960s, McCartney gives extensive treatment to the moral and political leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his challenge from the Black Power Movement in 1966.
"...deeply enrich[es] American historiography and take[s it]s place as part of what can be called a renaissance of interest in the study of African-American history."
In These Times
"Black Power Ideologies is a significant contribution to scholarship, for while there are hundreds of books on Black Power, this work takes the concept from the colonial era to the 1960s, and provides an accompanying political analysis to its historical development. McCartney's treatment of Black Power thought in the 18th Century is at once illuminating and path-breaking; no author has as yet extended the concept of Black Power beyond the 19th Century. This is must reading for those who wish to observe Black abolitionists and colonizers in a new and fascinating perspective."
John C. Walter, Director, Afro-American Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Background to Black Power
Imbalances and Injustices Against African-Americans
Theories About Why Inequality Persists
The Context of Black Protest
2. Black Nationalist Thought in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Colonization Movement: A Profile
Reactions to and Criticisms of Colonization
The Ideology of the Colonization Movement
The Tactics of the Pan-Negro Nationalists
Pan-Negro Nationalism and Beyond
3. The Abolitionist Movement
Early Abolitionism, 1645 to 1807
Abolitionism from 1807 to 1870
The Ideology of the Abolitionist Movement
Frederick Douglass: A Profile
The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass
The Tactics of the Abolitionists
Abolitionism and Beyond
4. The Politics of Accommodation
Booker T. Washington: A Profile
Booker T. Washington�s Philosophy of Education
The Social and Political Thought of Booker T. Washington
The Tactics of Booker T. Washington
Opposition to Booker T. Washington
5. Marcus Garvey and the Resurgence of Black Nationalism
Racial Equality by Integration: A Survey
Garvey�s Early Career
Garvey�s Later Career and the Garvey Movement
The Political Thought of Garvey
Garvey�s Organization and Tactics
Minor Expressions of Black Nationalism
6. Martin Luther King and Moralism
The Moralist Approach: A Profile
King�s Background and Intellectual Influences
King�s Philosophy of Nonviolence
The Political Thought of King
King�s Tactics
King and the Black Power Challenge
7. What Is Black Power?
The Range of Usages of the Term Black Power
Reshaping the Categories of Black Power
Commonalities in the Usage of Black Power
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Black Power
8. The Counter-Communalists: A Comparison and Analysis
Huey Newton�s Background and Intellectual Influences
The Political Thought of Huey Newton
Huey Newton and the Tactics of Counter-Communalism
Other Counter-Communalists on Tactics
9. The Black Power Pluralists: A Comparison and Analysis
Shirley Chisholm�s Background and Intellectual Influences
The Political Thought of Shirley Chisholm
Other Pluralists on the American System
Shirley Chisholm on the Obstacles to True Pluralism in the United States
Other Pluralists on the Obstacles to Democracy
Shirley Chisholm and the Case for Black Power Pluralism
Other Pluralist Visions of the Good Society
The Tactics of Pluralism
10. The Black Power Separatists: A Comparison and Analysis
Elijah Muhammad�s Background and Career
The Political Theology of Elijah Muhammad
Elements of Elijah Muhammad�s Political Theory
The Tactics of Separatism: The Black Muslims
Other Separatists on Tactics: Imamu Baraka and Imari Obadele I
11. A Critical Assessment of the Black Power Ideologies
The Paradoxes in the Goals of the Black Power Ideologies
Malcolm X and the Dilemmas of Black Power
The Life of Malcolm X and Its Meaning for the Black Power Movement
Black Power and Individualism
Black Power and the Intellectual
Permanent Contributions of the Black Power Ideologies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
The late John T. McCartney was Assistant Professor of Government at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
African American Studies
Political Science and Public Policy
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