Mainstreaming Black Power
Tom Adam Davies
Abstract
This book upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States—and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles—this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. The book shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures ... More
Keywords: Black Power movement, black rage, black uplift, 1960s, 1970s, War on Poverty, white power structures, black community
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520292109 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: January 2018 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520292109.001.0001 |
