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The revolution will not be theorized : cultural revolution in the black power era

Title: The revolution will not be theorized : cultural revolution in the black power era / Errol A. Henderson.
Author: Henderson, Errol Anthony
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]

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Description

xxii, 491 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

The study of the impact of Black Power Movement (BPM) activists and organizations in the 1960s through '70s has largely been confined to their role as proponents of social change; but they were also theorists of the change they sought. In The revolution will not be theorized Errol A. Henderson explains this theoretical contribution and places it within a broader social theory of black revolution in the United States dating back to nineteenth-century black intellectuals. These include black nationalists, feminists, and anti-imperialists; activists and artists of the Harlem Renaissance; and early Cold War-era black revolutionists. The book first elaborates W.E.B. Du Bois's thesis of the "General Strike" during the Civil War, Alain Locke's thesis relating black culture to political and economic change, Harold Cruse's work on black cultural revolution, and Malcolm X's advocacy of black cultural and political revolution in the United States. Henderson then critically examines BPM revolutionists' theorizing regarding cultural and political revolution and the relationship between them in order to realize their revolutionary objectives. Focused more on importing theory from third world contexts that were dramatically different from the United States, BPM revolutionists largely ignored the theoretical template for black revolution most salient to their case, which undermined their ability to theorize a successful black revolution in the United States.

Series Statement

SUNY Series in African American Studies

Uniform Title

SUNY series in African American studies.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Open access edition available thanks to TOME (Toward and Open Monograph Ecosystem). DOI: 10.26209/eh19rwmbt

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-472) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The revolution will not be theorized -- Malcom X and the revolutionary turn in the Civil Rights Movement -- Black nationalism: Civilization and reverse civilization -- The general strike and the slave revolution of the U.S. Civil War -- Cultural revolution and cultural evolution -- Theorizing cultural revolution in the Black Power Era -- RAM, us, the Black Panther Party -- Republic of New Africa, League of Revolutionary Black Workers -- CAP, shrine of the Black Madonna/Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church -- Conclusion: Black revolutionary theory in the BPM.

Call Number

Sc E 20-36

ISBN

9781438475431
1438475438

LCCN

2018040337
40029323124

OCLC

1096221010

Author

Henderson, Errol Anthony, author.

Title

The revolution will not be theorized : cultural revolution in the black power era / Errol A. Henderson.

Publisher

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY Series in African American Studies

SUNY series in African American studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-472) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Standard Identifier

40029323124

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-36

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