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Article: Black Movements in America.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 1999
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Black Movements in America. By Cedric J. Robinson. (New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 179. $16.95.)
"Is this America? Land of the Free and Home of the Brave?" Fannie Lou Hamer's question still rivets attention, for it is at once radical and conservative, communitarian and individualistic, a plaintive cry and a hardened protest, fiercely American and defiant of America.
But can scholars reduce Fannie Lou Hamer (or Frederick Douglass or other complex historical figures) to any single belief system or ideology of change? Such is the question implicit in Cedric Robinson's stimulating and vexing synthesis of African American protest, Black Movements in America. ...