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Article: New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975
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- The Nation
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- March 29, 1993
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NEW DAY IN BABYLON: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. By William L. Van Deburg. University of Chicago. 377 pp. $29.95.
There is no time like the present to remind us of the sixties. Young bloods rioting in the streets. Race-conscious scholars taking intellect multicultural on campus. TV's back in living color. And "X" still marks the spot. Or, "That's how we doin' it in the '90s. Fool," to paraphrase Ice Cube, a rapper as relevant as H. Rap Brown.
Readers ready for some serious flashbacks should get William Van Deburg's New Day in Babylon.' The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 19651975. This University of Wisconsin ...