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Article: Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity.(Book review)
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- Urban History Review
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- March 22, 2006
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Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2004.
When I began graduate school in 1990, black power in American historical scholarship was a chimera: largely dismissed as a chaotically anarchic, pathologically violent, and/or superficial cultural response to the failings of the postwar civil rights movement, the stock conclusion was that black power was an impenetrable mess. Now, through the recent work of Nikhil Pal Singh, Martha Biondi, Robert Self, Peniel Joseph, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard, black power is beginning to come into focus as an intrinsic element in the postwar black ...