We Are Not What We Seem : : Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century / / Roderick D. Bush.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Bush, Roderick D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

An "Indispensable" Book of The Black World Today website Much has been written about the Black Power movement in the United States. Most of this work, however, tends to focus on the personalities of the movement. In We Are Not What We Seem, Roderick D. Bush takes a fresh look at Black Powe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Reassessing Black Power
• 1 The Contemporary Crisis
• 2 Nothing but a Black Thing? The Black Freedom Struggle in Context
• 3 The Washington–Du Bois Conflict: African American Social Movements in the “Age of Imperialism,” 1890–World War I
• 4 World War I and the Deepening and Blackening of American Radicalism
• 5 From the Great Depression to World War II: The Recomposition of White-Black Alliance
• 6 The American Century: Labor Peace, Hegemony, and Civil Rights
• 7 The Crisis of U.S. Hegemony and the Transformation from Civil Rights to Black Liberation
• 8 The Future of Black Liberation and Social Change in the United States
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author