Ours too was a struggle for a better world [electronic resource] : activist intellectuals and the radical promise of the Black Power movement, 1962-1972
| 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 |
| Author: | Ward, Stephen Michael. |
| 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
http : / /hdl .handle .net /2152 /1498 |
| Date: | 2006-01-27 |
Citation
(2002).
Ours too was a struggle for a better world [electronic resource] : activist intellectuals and the radical promise of the Black Power movement, 1962-1972.
Doctoral dissertation,
The University of Texas at Austin. Available electronically from
http : / /hdl .handle .net /2152 /1498
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