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Soul Power
Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
About this book
A cultural history of activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the "long 1960s."
Author / Editor information
Cynthia A. Young is Associate Professor of English and the Director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Boston College.
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“I read Soul Power with a combination of pleasure and intellectual profit that is rare to come across in academic writing these days. There is so much fresh material here, supported by provocative theses. The result is a welcome challenge to the seasoned reader of postwar American culture and politics.”—Andrew Ross, author of Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai
“In Soul Power, Cynthia A. Young recovers the important hidden history of internationalism and world-transcending citizenship within the U.S. Black Freedom movement of the mid-twentieth century. This lively, engrossing, and engaging study reveals how commitments to global justice permeated the actions and ideas of Black trade union organizers, armed self-defense groups, community-based nationalists, visionary filmmakers, and radical feminists. Young demonstrates that the ferment and upheaval in Black communities in the mid-twentieth century did not just generate demands for equal rights inside the U.S. nation but raised as well programs aimed at ending imperialism, colonialism, and exploitation around the world.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger
“Soul Power is a significant contribution to the study of US radicalism, highlighting the roles African Americans and other people of color played in these movements. Considering the ambitious range of her project, Young delivers an admirable mix of breadth and depth, covering a number of individuals and organizations and their relevance to the development of the US Third World Left. The carefully chronicled historiography provides a valuable foundation for further investigations of this period.”
-- Rychetta N. Watkins MELUS
“[T]he great virtue of Soul Power is to complicate our understandings of 1960s-era social movements. Soul Power successfully challenges New Left narratives that place the activities of white middleclass youths at their center, and civil rights narratives that concentrate on the struggle against racial oppression while ignoring that against class oppression. By focusing on a series of important, fascinating, and neglected historical actors, Young offers us a much richer understanding of the 1960s-era left.”
-- Daniel Geary Journal of American Studies
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Havana Up in Harlem and Down in Monroe
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2. Union Power, Soul Power
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3. Newsreel
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4. Third World Newsreel Visualizes the Internal Colony
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5. Angela Y. Davis and U.S. Third World Left Theory and Praxis
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6. Shot in Watts
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Coda
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Notes
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Bibliography and Filmography
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Index
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November 1, 2006
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9780822388616
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328
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10 b&w photos
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