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Summary:

"An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the movement's influence on Black communities in America from 1965 to the mid-1970s.• Gives students and general readers a comprehensive overview of the Black Power Movement and an understanding of its importance within the turbulence and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States as well as in the context of modern-day civil rights. Provides insight into important concepts such as Black self-determination, Black consciousness, independent Black politics, and independent institutions. Features contributions from premier Black Power scholars as well as Black Power activists. Offers topical and biographical entries, a timeline of events, and a bibliography of key print and nonprint sources of additional information"--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

• Volume 1. Introduction
• Chronology
• Armed resistance in the Black Power movement
• Black Power, Red Power, and the potential of Red-Black unity
• Black Power studies
• Gender, Black women, and Black Power
• Urban rebellions
• A-I
• Volume 2. J-Z.

Contributors:

Umoja, Akinyele Omowale , editor

Stanford, Karin L., 1961- , editor

Young, Jasmin A. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Black power encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018] — ISBN 9781440840067; LCCN 2017045242; OCLC Number 1004769973)

Related Series:

Movements of the American mosaic

Subjects:

Black power — United States — Encyclopedias

African Americans — Politics and government — Encyclopedias

Civil rights movements — United States — Encyclopedias

United States — Race relations — Encyclopedias

Black power

African Americans — Politics and government

African Americans

Civil rights movements

Race relations

United States

Genres:

Encyclopedias

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from pdf title page (Ebsco, viewed August 16, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes (cxxxv, 904 pages)) : illustrations, portraits.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

E185.615 .E53 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781440840074 (electronic book)
1440840075 (electronic book)
9781440840067 (set, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
1440840067 (set, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9781440847776 (v. 1, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
1440847770 (v. 1, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9781440847783 (v. 2, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
1440847789 (v. 2, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017046431

OCLC Numbers:

1004957358