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Black Power Movement: 1960S
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The Black Power movement in the late 1960s and 1970s has much in common with the previous decade's Beatniks, right down to the stereotypical bongos, berets, black turtlenecks, and protest poetry. This time... spoken-word and "concept" albums were in their heyday. Besides the obvious (fear and suppression of the Black Power movement), what kept this countercultural phenomenon marginal was the distraction of many other movements and events of the period. But, as with soul jazz, free jazz, and so on, time allows for correction and retrieval.
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"Black Power Ideologies is a significant contribution to scholarship, for while there are hundreds of books on Black Power, this work takes the concept from the colonial era to the 1960s, and provides an accompanying political analysis to its historical development. McCartney's treatment of Black Power thought in the 18th Century is at once illuminating and path-breaking; no author has as yet extended the concept of Black Power beyond the 19th Century. This is must reading for those who wish to observe Black abolitionists and colonizers in a new and fascinating perspective."
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Other interpreters of Black Power emphasized the cultural heritage of blacks, especially the African roots of black identity. This view encouraged study and celebration of black history and culture. In the late 1960s black college students requested curricula in black studies that explored their distinctive culture and history. Led by the cultural critic Harold Cruse and the poet Amiri Baraka, some black intellectuals called for a cultural-nationalist perspective on literature, art, and history in the belief that blacks had separate values and ways of living. Cultural nationalism was often expressed by the wearing of loose, brightly colored African garments, called dashikis, and the natural “Afro” hair style.
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The URI professor is ... investigating the Black Power Movement’s concrete outcomes. “Black is Beautiful” became a popular slogan of the era raising the Black consciousness and self-esteem, and Black nationalism produced a generation of elected officials. Consider that in the mid-1960s, there were 500 Blacks holding offices. Thirty years later, there were more than 7,000.
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