Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century

by Rhonda Y. Williams

Book Overview

Between the 1950s and 1970s, Black Power coalesced as activists advocated a more oppositional approach to fighting racial oppression, emphasizing racial pride, asserting black political, cultural, and economic autonomy, and challenging white power. In Concrete Demands, Rhonda Y. Williams provides a rich, deeply researched history that sheds new light on this important social and political movement, and shows that the era of expansive Black...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415801427
• ISBN13: 9780415801423
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"