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New Day in Babylon (Paperback, New edition)
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New Day in Babylon (Paperback, New edition)
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With a gift for storytelling and an ear for street talk, William
Van Deburg has written the most comprehensive account available of
the rise and fall of the Black Power movement - and of its dramatic
transformation of both African-American and the larger American
culture. New Day in Babylon chronicles a decade of deep change,
from the armed struggles of the Black Panther Party and the
separatism of the Nation of Islam to the cultural nationalism of
artists and writers creating a new black aesthetic. If its tactical
gains were sometimes short-lived, the Black Power movement did
succeed in making a revolution - one in culture and consciousness
that has changed the context of race in America. Drawing on a
remarkable range of cultural expressions, from the voice of Malcolm
X to the music of James Brown, from urban folklore, the visual
arts, and religion to the language of soul, Van Deburg extracts the
enduring cultural and psychological themes that ran through the
ideologies of Black Power politics. For Van Deburg, Black Power
was, underneath it all, a revolt rooted in culture - both high and
low - as artists, writers, performers, politicians, and ordinary
people alike begin to assert a distinctive African-American
worldview and way of being. His book is a finely textured rendering
of the years when the rhetoric of the gun gave way to an explosion
of cultural forms that, in celebrating the uniqueness of
African-American life, carried forward the militant philosophy of
resistance, pride, and self-esteem. Like activists in the sixties
and seventies, African-Americans today mobilize a rich variety of
cultural resources in the struggle for group identity and racial
justice. Whether in the filmsof Spike Lee or other new black
directors, in rap music, or in experiments in Afrocentric
education, African-Americans continue to reshape the contours of
American values, ideals, and attitudes. This is the real legacy of
the Black Power movement. And it has never been demonstrated more
eloquently than in this book.
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