Alphonso Pinkney – författare

For sophomore/junior-level courses in race relations, black studies, black history, and black culture or as a supplement for sociology or African-American studies classes. This book presents a brief but complete assessment of the lives of African Americans in the United States from a sociological point of view. It is multi-disciplinary in its coverage of anthropology, history, economics, political science, and other areas relevant to "the Black Experience in America".

From the first slaves who rose up against their master in the early period of American history to the prominent modern figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammed, Eldridge Cleaver, Red, Black, and Green traces the origins, the struggles and the accomplishments of black nationalism. Its broad discussion of the ideology of black nationalism and of the conditions that gave rise to this ideology provides the foundation for a thorough account of the black nationalist movement in the peak years of its momentum, roughly the decade 1963 to 1973. The author deals both with specific milestones, such as Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association in the early twentieth century, and with the far-reaching implications of the movement for the black community and for the United States as a whole. He looks at the many facets of black nationalism - revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, religious nationalism, and educational nationalism - analyses the relationship between this movement and liberation movements in general.