Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (Paperback)

~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor) "The distinctive feature of African American life in the sixties was the rise on the historical stage of a small yet determined petite bourgeoisie promoting..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review

"Is It Nation Time? provides a useful, original, and provocative overview of the historic roots and emergence of black nationalism and Black Power, calling for further historical reconstruction and critical re-examination. This volume will be an important counter to the critical discourse on black nationalism that regards the phenomenon as an expression of racial essentialism."-Kevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan (Kevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan )

"This is the first book-length study to examine the complex ways in which the political choices and failures of the Black Power movement inform our nation's racial landscape. Is It Nation Time? is a stimulating commentary on African-American cultural politics, and a thoughtful examination of Black Power's legacy for the new millennium."-William L. Van Deburg, University of Wisconsin, Madison (William L. Van Deburg, University of Wisconsin, Madison ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Description

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Power movement provided the dominant ideological framework through which many young, poor, and middle-class blacks made sense of their lives and articulated a political vision for their futures. The legacy of the movement is still very much with us today in the various strands of black nationalism that originated from it; we witnessed its power in the 1995 Million Man March, and we see its more ambiguous effects in the persistent antagonisms among former participants in the civil rights coalition. Yet despite the importance of the Black Power movement, very few in-depth, balanced treatments of it exist.

Is It Nation Time? gathers new and classic essays on the Black Power movement and its legacy by renowned thinkers who deal rigorously and unsentimentally with such issues as the commodification of blackness, the piety of cultural recovery, and class tensions within the movement. For anyone who wants to understand the roots of the complex political and cultural desires of contemporary black America, this will be an essential collection.

Contributors:
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Phillip Brian Harper
Gerald Horne
Robin D. G. Kelley
Wahneema Lubiano
Adolph Reed Jr.
Jeffrey Stout
Will Walker
S. Craig Watkins
Cornel West
E. Francis White

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (April 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226298221
• ISBN-13: 978-0226298221
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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