Black power in the belly of the beast.9780252073946 Black power in the belly of the beast. Ed. by Judson L. Jeffries. U. of Illinois Press 2006 320 pages $25.00 Paperback E185 Instructors of upper-level undergraduate courses on African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. politics can find an abundance of scholarly material on the Civil Rights movement, but little on the Black Power movement. Here American social scientists fill that gap with essays mostly on particular organizations, but also on the movement as a whole. Among their topics are the Republic of New Africa in Mississippi, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) formed in 1967 in Detroit, Michigan. Its origins are due to an intersection of events and movements in and outside Detroit, Michigan e.g. , and the Black Liberation Army The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground, black nationalist-Marxist organization that operated in the United States from 1971 to 1981. Comprised largely of former Black Panthers (BPP), the organization's program was one of "armed struggle" and its stated goal was to "take and the radical legacy of the Black Panther Party Black Panther Party (for Self-Defense) U.S. African American revolutionary party founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale (b. 1936) in Oakland, Calif. Its original purpose was to protect African Americans from acts of police brutality. . ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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