We are an African people: independent education, black power, and the radical imagination

By 1970, more than 60 'Pan African nationalist' schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, had appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often accused of teaching hate and were routinely harassed by authorities. Yet these institu...

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Main Author: Rickford, Russell John 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2016]
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:By 1970, more than 60 'Pan African nationalist' schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, had appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often accused of teaching hate and were routinely harassed by authorities. Yet these institutions served as critical mechanisms for transmitting black consciousness. In this book, based on his Bancroft Award-winning dissertation, historian Russell Rickford traces the brief lives of these autonomous black institutions created to claim some of the self-determination that the integrationist civil rights movement had failed to provide.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9780190455637
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199861477.001.0001

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