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The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America

The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America

Jennings, James

Paperback

Series: African American Life

Black American StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0814323189
ISBN13: 9780814323182
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Oct 15 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In analyzing Black politics since the late 1960s, James Jennings focuses on both the behavioral aspects, such as individual and group characteristics of voting and nonvoting and elections, as well a more fundamental philosophical and cultural questions regarding Black politics.

This study examines how the traditional face of Black politics and electoral activism interacts with a growing progressive face of Black politics. While traditional Black political activists seek access or political incorporation, another group aims for power sharing. The traditional approach is sometimes satisfied with merely replacing white politicians with Blacks, but the progressive constituency focuses on fundamentally changing the whole economic and political pie. Activist desirous of Black empowerment are pursuing a political and economic orientation that goes beyond programs based on access to American institutional arrangements and attempting to change or alter given political arrangements and social relations between Blacks and whites on the basis of changing the social structure and the distribution of wealth and power.

Based on interviews with Black and Latino activist in several big cities as well as review of the literature and the Black newspapers around the country, The Politics of Black Empowerment describes the characteristics of Black empowerment activism in America.

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