Achieving Blackness : : Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century / / Algernon Austin.

• VerfasserIn: Austin, Algernon,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Achieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the “Afrocentric era” of the 1980s thro...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Contents
• 1 Making Races
• 2 Asiatic Identity in the Nation of Islam
• 3 Achieving Blackness during the Black Power Era
• 4 The Racial Structures of Black Power
• 5 The Racial Ideology of Afrocentrism
• 6 Conservative Black Nationalism in the Afrocentric Era
• 7 Change in Black Nationalism in the Twentieth Century
• 8 Making Races, Making Ethnicities
• Appendix
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author