Fighting for Our Place in the Sun
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Fighting for Our Place in the Sun

Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 19601973

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fighting for Our Place in the Sun

Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 19601973

About this book

In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X's educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists that sought to create spaces of liberation and learning that are free from cultural and racial oppression. It explains a side of the Black student movement and shift in black power that develops as a result of the student protests in North Carolina and Duke University. From these acts of radicalism, Malcolm X Liberation University (MXLU), the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU/YOBU), and African Liberation Day (ALD) were produced to serve as catalysts to extend the tradition of Black activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scholars, researchers, community organizers, and students of African-American studies, American studies, history of education, political science, Pan-African studies, and more will benefit from this provocative and enlightening text.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations Used in the Text
  6. Abbreviations Used in Notes
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Malcolm X and/as Social Pedagogy. A Critical Historical Analysis
  9. Chapter 2: Sowing the Wind to Reap a Whirlwind. Ideological Shifts and Radical Expressions in the Black Student Movement, 1963–1966
  10. Chapter 3: Purges, Proscriptions, and New Directions. Black Student Protests and a Call for a Black University, 1966–1969
  11. Chapter 4: Uhuru Na Kazi (Freedom and Hard Work)!. The Historical Developments of Malcolm X Liberation University, 1969–1972
  12. Chapter 5: Malcolm X Liberation University. Planning, Curriculum, Projects, and Institutional Objectives
  13. Chapter 6: Working for African Liberation with the Student Organization for Black Unity. Historical Developments, Programs, and Activity, 1969–1971
  14. Chapter 7: A Movement of the People … African People. African Liberation Day, the Decline of MXLU, and Left Pan-Africanism of YOBU, 1972–1973
  15. Epilogue
  16. Illustrations
  17. Index