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Article: Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity
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- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
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- July 1, 2006
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Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004; pp vii +249. $45.00.
This comprehensive history of the politics of black power incorporates interviews by the author, archival materials, an extensive survey of periodical literature, and a large range of primary sources penned, uttered, and published by black power activists themselves. Historian Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar crafts a text that examines the complexities of the concept of black power. Ogbar argues, "Black Power affected African American identity and politics as much as any speech, march, or legal victory of the civil rights movement" because the ...