Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought

Book info: Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought (Hardcover, 182 pages) – Cambridge University Press, 2001. Language: English.

Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought revisits the activism and arguments in support of separate black statehood from the mid-19th century to the present, detailing the ways black nationalism mirrors broader currents in U.S. politics and thought. This book challenges the idea that black nationalism is a timeless, unchanging, and anti-assimilationist impulse. It argues that black nationalism in the United States draws on analogous political strategy and thinking unique to specific historical eras--often inadvertently reproducing strategies and thinking responsible for racial inequality in the first place. Book Description Revisits the arguments supporting separate black statehood from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.