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“This book is an outstanding contribution to an expanding body of innovative, insightful, and original scholarship on the Black Power movement. Davies builds upon an already firm foundation of histories produced in the last ten years, ultimately producing the most substantive and significant study of the impact of Black Power on the American political mainstream.”—Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, author of Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity
“Davies’s argument about the role of white public policy makers in shaping the impact of Black Power is compelling. He demonstrates hard-thinking that brings together often-discrete historiographies behind an overarching interpretation. His case studies highlight the tension between social justice and technocratic solutions to urban poverty. Davies has provided the best analysis I have seen of why Black Power was more moderate and influential than is sometimes acknowledged, but also why the benefits to African Americans of post–Voting Rights Act black politics have turned out to be so constrained.”—Anthony J. Badger, author of FDR: The First Hundred Days
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 • “A Mouthful of Civil Rights and an Empty Belly”: The War on Poverty and the Fight for Racial Equality
2 • Community Development Corporations, Black Capitalism, and the Mainstreaming of Black Power
3 • Black Power and Battles over Education
4 • Black Mayors and Black Progress: The Limits of Black Political Power
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Tom Adam Davies is Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex.
Riassunto
States that the Black Power movement provided a catharsis for black rage but achieved little institutional transformation. This book reveals how War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and shows that federal, state, and local funds during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control.
Testo aggiuntivo
"Scrupulously researched. . . . Davies lays out a blueprint for understanding what Black Power looked like and how it was co-opted and undermined by group identity politics and economic self-interest."
