The Challenge of Blackness
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The Challenge of Blackness

The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s

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The Challenge of Blackness

The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s

About this book

The Challenge of Blackness examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Freedom Struggle organizations to emerge in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A think tank based in Atlanta, the IBW sought to answer King's question "Where do we go from here?" Its solution was to organize a broad array of leading Black activists, scholars, and intellectuals to find ways to combine the emerging academic discipline of Black Studies with the Black political agenda.

Throughout the 1970s, debates over race and class in the Unites States grew increasingly hostile, and the IBW's approach was ultimately unable to challenge the growing conservatism. By using the IBW as the lens through which to view these turbulent years, Derrick White provides an exciting new interpretation of the immediate post-civil rights years in America.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction. Where Do We Go from Here?: The Long Seventies
  10. 1. “The Challenge of Blackness”: The IBW and the Black Studies Movement
  11. 2. “Liberated Grounds”: The IBW’s Independence and Reorganization
  12. 3. “Toward a Black Agenda”: The IBW and a Black Political Agenda for the Seventies
  13. 4. “Collective Scholarship”: Developing and Promoting Synthetic Analyses
  14. 5. “The Tapes Were the Heart of the Matter”: The IBW’s Infiltration and Decline
  15. Epilogue: The IBW’s Closing and Legacy
  16. Appendix: IBW Membership, Conferences, and Symposium Lists
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index