Ebook: Mainstreaming black power
Author: Davies Tom Adam
- Tags: African American political activists, African American political activists--History--20th century, African Americans--Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government--20th century, Black power, Black power--United States--History--20th century, History, Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century, African American political activists -- History -- 20th century, African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century, African Americans -- Politics and government, United
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: United States
- Language: English
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This work upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States, and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, Tom Adam Davis reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control.
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