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| Title: | Ours too was a struggle for a better world [electronic resource] : activist intellectuals and the radical promise of the Black Power movement, 1962-1972 |
| Authors: | Ward, Stephen Michael.
Falola, Toyin |
| Keywords: | History, Black.
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Political Science, General. |
| Issue Date: | 27-Jan-2006 |
| Publisher: | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Abstract: | This dissertation examines black political thought and the development of a radical intelligentsia within the context of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s. To explore the ways in which this independent black left shaped African American politics in this period, the study focuses on three obscured sources of Black Power-era radicalism: James and Grace Lee Boggs in Detroit, Michigan; Frances Beal and the Third World Women's Alliance; and Vincent Harding and the Institute of the Black World. Though their names and actions were rarely recorded in the headlines or news reports of the Black Power era, the stories of these individuals and organizations provide windows into the movement's history and its ideological legacy of revolutionary theory, radical Black feminism, and politically engaged scholarship. As such, their stories are at once representative of Black Power activism and singularly unique. They are representative because in their writings and political activity they articulated and acted upon central ideological and political commitments of the Black Power era. They are unique because each operated in a particular setting, and in examining their stories we have a window into previously obscured expressions of Black Power-era radicalism. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1498 |
| Appears in Collections: | Theses and Dissertations from The University of Texas at Austin
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