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We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century

We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century

Bush, Roderick D.

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0814713173
ISBN13: 9780814713174
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Dec 1 1998
Pages: 315
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.17
Language: English

An Indispensable Book of The Black World Today website

A fresh new look at the Black Power movement and its leaders

Much has been written about the Black Power movement in the United States. Most of this work, however, tends to focus on the personalities of the movement. In We Are Not What We Seem, Roderick D. Bush takes a fresh look at Black Power and other African American social movements with a specific emphasis on the role of the urban poor in the struggle for Black rights.

Bush traces the trajectory of African American social movements from the time Booker T. Washington to the present, providing an integrated discussion of class. He addresses questions crucial to any understanding of Black politics: Is the Black Power movement simply another version of the traditional American ethnic politics, or does it have wider social import? What role has the federal government played in implicitly grooming social conservatives like Louis Farrakhan to assume leadership positions as opposed to leftist, grassroots, class-oriented leaders? Bush avoids the traditional liberal and social democratic approaches in favor of a more universalistic perspective that offers new insights into the history of Black movements in the U.S.

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