New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975

ISBN-13: 9780226847153 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 388 str.

William L. Van Deburg

Opis

The most comprehensive account available of the rise and fall of the Black Power Movement and of its dramatic transformation of both African-American and larger American culture. With a gift for storytelling and an ear for street talk, William Van Deburg chronicles a decade of deep change, from the armed struggles of the Black Panther party to the cultural nationalism of artists and writers creating a new aesthetic. Van Deburg contends that although its tactical gains were sometimes short-lived, the Black Power movement did succeed in making a revolution-one in culture and consciousness-that has changed the context of race in America.
""New Day in Babylon" is an extremely intelligent synthesis, a densely textured evocation of one of American history's most revolutionary transformations in ethnic group consciousness."-Bob Blauner, "New York Times"
Winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, 1993