Futures of Black Power
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Futures of Black Power

Reimagining the Black Past

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Futures of Black Power

Reimagining the Black Past

About this book

Illustrating new frameworks for recognizing and studying Black Power and Black radicalism

 

Rewriting narratives that present Black Power as related but marginal to the Civil Rights Movement, this book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In this collection, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future.

In Futures of Black Power, Ashley Farmer offers a framework for developing Black Power archives, Jasmin Young makes the case for oral history collections dedicated to the study of the movement, and D’Weston Haywood discusses Afrofuturist underpinnings in the Nation of Islam. Interspersed with their essays are oral history interviews with activists Kathleen Cleaver, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Mabel Williams, and Nikki Giovanni.

These essays and primary sources show how today’s scholars of Black Power are incorporating memory studies, gender studies, and intellectual histories, and they point the way forward to new avenues for research and public engagement. They collectively illustrate the need to preserve and remember the variety of voices, actions, and imaginings that constitute Black Power, elements of Black history that are often ignored or forgotten.

 

A volume in the series Frontiers of the American South, edited by William A. Link

 

Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Yes, you can access Futures of Black Power by Anthony M. Donaldson Jr.,Madison W. Cates in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & African American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. From “Freedom Now!” to “Black Power”: An Oral History Interview with Kathleen Cleaver
  8. 2. Reflections on the Black Power Archive
  9. 3. “This Is Exactly What’s Needed”: An Oral History Interview with Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
  10. 4. The Case for a Black Power Oral History Digital Archive
  11. 5. “Everybody’s Born for Something”: An Oral History Interview with Mabel Williams
  12. 6. “Mr. Muhammad Says All of This Is Possible for You and Me”: Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks, and Black Nationalism during the Space Age
  13. 7. Excerpt of Elijah Muhammad’s Address from Muhammad Speaks (1962)
  14. 8. “Strength in Your Own Voice”: An Oral History Interview with Nikki Giovanni
  15. List of Contributors
  16. Index