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

by Russell Rickford

During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, 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. Founded by activist-intellectuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190055537
• ISBN13: 9780190055530
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"