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The Black Power Movement
Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors around to write original essays on the Black Power Movement. Taken together they provide a critical and much needed historical overview of the Black Power era. Offering important examples of undocumented histories of black liberation, this volume offers both powerful and poignant examples of "Black Power Studies" scholarship.

Praise for THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT:

“In The Black Power Movement, Peniel Joseph has assembled a formidable collection of essays by scholars who are rewriting the history of Black Power in America.  Too long neglected or dismissed, Black Power is finally receiving the attention it deserves, and Joseph’s collection captures the influences, breadth, and complexity of the movement with extraordinary sophistication.”
—Robert Self, author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

 “These fresh interpretations of the Black Power movement are eye-opening.  This provocative work is core reading for anyone interested in the history and culture of African Americans and of the United States.”
—Brenda Gayle Plummer, author of Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988

“The Black Power Movement provides compelling reinterpretations of not just the past, but also the present by providing detailed and illuminating case studies of local community struggles, recovering unsung pioneering Black feminists, and the inauguration of cultural practices.  This is the most significant collection of work on Black Power since the Black Power Movement.”
—Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, author of America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915

The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era is a bold new look at the Black Power Movement, a social movement during the 1960s that re-defined black identity.  The essays in this collection argue that the Black Power Movement and the Civil Rights Movement grew out of the same postwar political climate that galvanized many types of civil rights activists.  With essays that reconsider the roots of the 1965 Watts uprising, the formation of the Black Panther Party, and the “rainbow radicalism” that inspired ethnic minorities to celebrate their ethnic consciousness, among other topics, these powerful collected works look at the era of the Black Power Movement with fresh eyes.

Contributors: Peniel E. Joseph, Keith Mayes, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Kimberly Springer, Jeanne Theoharis, Stephen Ward, Simon Wendt, Rhonda Y. Williams, Yohuru Williams, Komozi Woodard