Black Power Movement

Peniel E. Joseph is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. He is the author of Waiting'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of BlackPower in America.

"The collection is enjoyable, welcome, and important." Journal of American History

• Introduction: Toward a Historiography of the Black Power Movement1. 'Alabama on Avalon': Rethinking the Watts Uprising and the Character of Black Protest in Los Angeles2. Amiri Baraka, the Congress of African People and Black Power Politics from the 1961 United Nations Protest to the 1972 Gary Convention3. Black Women, Urban Politics, and Engendering Black Power4. Black Feminists Respond to Black Power Masculinism5. The Third World Women's Alliance: Black Feminist Radicalism and the Black Power Movement 6. The Roots of Black Power? Armed Resistance and the Radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement 7. 'A Red Black and Green Liberation Jumpsuit': Roy Wilkins, the Black Panthers and the Conundrum of Black Power 8. Rainbow Radicalism: The Rise of Radical Ethnic Nationalism 9. 'A Holiday of Our Own': Kwanzaa, Cultural Nationalism, and the Promotion of a Black Power Holiday, 1966–1985 10. Black Studies, Student Activism, and the Black Power Movement