Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America

by Charles V. Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael

Book Overview

An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.

A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679743138
• ISBN13: 9780679743132
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A Good Political Analysis

Harold Cruse - who I rarely disagree with - gave this book along with Carmichael and Hamilton a semi-beating in his work, 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual'. Unfairly, I have to say. Yes, this work is more reformist than revolution and yes there are a few inconsistencies. However, the book is analytically sound for the time and especially for their ages. Also,when you consider the condition Black people were in - and still are as a matter of fact - it seems obvious that some kind of temporal patchwork be done if for no other reason than to slow the bleeding. Carmichael and Hamilton's recommendations were a good start.

Open your eyes

After reading this book I began to think of many different things about myself. At first the book seemed kind of dull but give it a chapter or so and you won't want to put it down. This book gives references of the once again if you've read any other of my reviews by the people for the people. This book deals with big politics and community politics. It offers approaches as a person to realize the problems of the inner city but not so much but how blacks are being taken advantage of. This book is an insight into how businesses in the black community should under contracts be forced to spend at least ten to twenty percent of their earnings in the black community on schlorships, helping businesses,helping the homeless,etc. It gives case studies of different black comunities and how they confronted the powers that be. This book is a must read for all blacks, going into the next political change for us to understand where this system of government between Gore and Bush will leave minorities for the next term. This will also give non-minorities a chance to see what are the struggles that us as so called minorities go through that some quite can't understand. Everyone reading this review stay peaceful in your endeavers and life and stay focused, Assalaamu Alaykium

A Bible for Black Nationalism

I first read this book in 1993, after reading this book again it gives a not only a revealing truth of the american black experience, but a foundation for these beliefs and clear logical thought which makes this book a MUST READ and not just angry rhetoric printed on paper.