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Article: Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar. Reconfiguring American Political History. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 258. Paper, $23.00, ISBN 0-8018-8275-3; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-7957-4.)
This sympathetic treatment of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s offers a concise and at times insightful portrayal of one of the most fascinating moments in the African American freedom struggle. Proceeding from the premise that "Black Power was an organic response to the limitations of rigid black nationalism and the civil rights movement," Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar argues that ...