The Politics of Black Empowerment
Title | The Politics of Black Empowerment PDF eBook |
Author | James Jennings |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2000-01-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0814336612 |
The Politics of Black Empowerment uses the experiences of grassroots activists to develop various conceptualizations and explanations of Black political behavior today. In analyzing Black politics since the late 1960s, James Jennings focuses on both the behavioral aspects, such as individual and group characteristics of voting and nonvoting and elections, as well as more fundamental philosophical and cultural questions regarding Black politics. This study examines how the "traditional" face of Black politics and electoral activism interacts with a growing "progressive" face of Black politics. While traditional Black political activists seek access or political incorporation, another group aims for power sharing. The traditional approach is sometimes satisfied with merely replacing white politicians with Blacks, but the progressive constituency focuses on fundamentally changing the whole economic and political pie. Activists desirous of Black empowerment are pursuing a political and economic orientation that goes beyond programs based on access to American institutional arrangements and attempting to change or alter given political arrangements and social relations between Blacks and whites on the basis of changing the social structure and the distribution of wealth and power. Based on interviews with Black and Latino activists in several big cities as well as on a review of the literature and the Black newspapers around the country, The Politics of Black Empowerment describes the characteristics of Black empowerment activism in America.
The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City
Title | The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City PDF eBook |
Author | Charles St. Clair Green |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Black Feminist Thought
Title | Black Feminist Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2002-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135960135 |
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.
Black Votes Count
Title | Black Votes Count PDF eBook |
Author | Frank R. Parker |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2011-03-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807869694 |
Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century. To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political "massive resistance" strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief.
Subordination Or Empowerment?
Title | Subordination Or Empowerment? PDF eBook |
Author | Richard A. Keiser |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | African American leadership |
ISBN | 0195075692 |
Why have Blacks won political empowerment in some cities and remained subordinated in others? Through case studies of Chicago, Gary, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, Keiser argues that electoral competition among White factions has created opportunities for Black leaders to win political empowerment and avoid subordination. In the absence of electoral competiion, Black votes become superfluous and separatist, and messianic appeals from leaders like Louis Farakhan gain resonance.
Black Feminist Thought
Title | Black Feminist Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2002-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135960143 |
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.
The Politics of Empowerment
Title | The Politics of Empowerment PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Weissberg |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1999-03-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Allegedly, empowerment will cure everything from personal disorders to declining city centers.