We Are an African People - Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination

A history of black independent schools as the forge for black nationalism and a vanguard for black sovereignty in the 1960s and 70s.

List of contents

• Introduction: Rethinking Education, Black Power and the Radical Imagination


• Ch 1 Community Control and the Struggle for Black Education in the 1960s


• Ch 2 Black Studies and the Politics of "Relevance"


• Ch 3 The Evolution of Movement Schools


• Ch 4 African Restoration and the Politics of Culture


• Ch 5 The Maturation of Pan African Nationalism


• Ch 6 The Black University and the "Total Community"


• Ch 7 The End of Illusions


• Epilogue


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Russell Rickford is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Betty Shabazz: Surviving Malcolm X, the co-author of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, and the editor of Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader.

Summary

A history of black independent schools as the forge for black nationalism and a vanguard for black sovereignty in the 1960s and 70s.

Additional text

We Are an African People is an insightful and impressively researched study of an important aspect of the Black Power and early Black Studies movements that had previously received little scholarly attention. Through his focus on independent black nationalist educational institutions, Russell Rickford convincingly reveals Black Power as both a visionary and practical movement.

Product details

• Authors: Russell Rickford, Russell (Assistant Professor of History Rickford, Russell J. Rickford
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190055530
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005553-0
• No. of pages: 402
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Civics and citizenship