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The New Black History anthology presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture, especially during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. The volume includes articles by both established scholars and a rising generation of young scholars.

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MANNING MARABLE has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City, USA.

PENIEL JOSEPH Professor of History at Tufts University, USA.

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The New Black History anthology presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture, especially during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras

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Introduction: Black Intellectuals and the World They Made; M.Marable PART I: DISRUPTING REGIONAL BOUNDARIES Housing, Urban Development, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the Post-Civil Rights Era South; J.A.Kirk The Pressures of the People: Milton A. Galamison, the Parents' Workshop, and Resistance to School Integration in New York City, 1960-1963; L.Y.Waller The Campus and the Street: Race, Migration, and the Origins of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA; D.Murch PART II: TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS Spokesman of the Oppressed? Lorraine Hansberry at Work: The Challenge of Radical Politics in the Postwar Era; R.Welch Black Crusaders: The Transnational Circuit of Robert and Mabel Williams; R.T.Frazier Peace Was the Glue: Europe and African American Freedom; B.G.Plummer Yellow Power: The Formation of Asian-American Nationalism in the Age of Black Power, 1966-1975; J.O.G.Ogbar The Congress of African People: Baraka, Brother Mao, and the Year of '74; R.T.Frazier PART III: DISRUPTING INTERNAL BOUNDARIES Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: Reconceptualizing the Heroic Period of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; P.E.Joseph Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s; P.E.Joseph Protection or Path Toward Revolution?: Black Power and Self-Defense; S.Wendt The Black Bolsheviks: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements and Shop-Floor Organizing; E.K.Hinton PART IV: STRUGGLING FOR COMMUNITY CONTROL AND AUTONOMY Septima Clark: Organizing for Positive Freedom; S.Lazar Building a Black Nation: CORE, Black Power, and the Community Development Corporation Movement; N.Frazier Black is Beautiful But So is Green: Capitalism, Black Power, and Politics in Floyd McKissick's Soul City; Z.Gillan Integration, Black Nationalism and Radical Transformation in African-American Philosophies of Education, 1965-1974; R.Rickford

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