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To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent
contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power
versus civil rights, the sword versus the shield. The struggle for
Black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent
direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American
democracy, the movement's militancy is either vilified or erased
outright. In The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph upends
these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who,
despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each
other throughout their adult lives. Now updated with a new
afterword, this is a strikingly revisionist account of Malcolm and
Martin, the era they defined, and their lasting impact on today's
Movement for Black Lives.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the two most iconic
figures of the Civil Rights movement. To most Americans, Malcolm
and Martin represent contrasting political ideals -- self-defense
vs. non-violence, anger vs. pacifism, separatism vs. integration,
the sword vs. the shield. The Civil Rights movement itself has
suffered the same fate: while non-violent direct action is
remembered today as an unalloyed good and an unassailable part of
our democracy, the movement's combative militancy has been either
vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield, acclaimed
historian Peniel Joseph offers a dual biography of Malcolm and
Martin and a more nuanced narrative that pushes us to completely
reconsider these two leaders as well as the era they came to
define. The Sword and the Shield reimagines Malcolm X and Martin
Luther King Jr. not as antagonists, but as two political
revolutionaries who confronted the same problem from different
perspectives. Examining their political lives next to one another
provides a more complicated, but ultimately more satisfying,
understanding of these men and the times they shaped. Despite
markedly different family histories, religious affiliations, and
class backgrounds, Malcolm and Martin found common ground on a wide
range of issues. Each inspired the other to engage political views
that he had rejected in the past. Malcolm's push to connect
pan-Africanism to an international human rights agenda mirrored the
multiculturalism that Martin eloquently articulated at the March on
Washington. Similarly, the anti-war activism and anti-poverty
campaigns of Martin's final years unleashed a stinging critique of
racism, militarism, and materialism that echoed Malcolm's
impassioned anti-colonialism. In short, King was more
revolutionary, and Malcolm more pragmatic, than we've been told.
This will stand as the definitive dual history of these two lives
for years to come.
Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black
activist, stepped into the pages of history when he called for
Black Power" during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A
firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black
Power movements, Carmichael would stand for the rest of his life at
the centre of the storm he had unleashed. A nuanced and
authoritative portrait, Stokely captures the life of the man whose
uncompromising vision defined political radicalism and provoked a
national reckoning on race and democracy.
Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny,
this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the
social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of
hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of Barack
Obama." ,Kevin Powell, author of The Education of Kevin Powell: A
Boy's Journey into Manhood A brilliantly conceived volume. Bryan
Shih and Yohuru Williams demonstrate why the Panthers'story,its
lessons and failures,even fifty years after its founding remains
key to understanding national and international struggles for
freedom and justice today." ,Cheryl Finley, professor and director
of visual studies, Cornell UniversityEven fifty years after it was
founded, the Black Panther Party remains one of the most
misunderstood political organizations of the twentieth century. But
beyond the labels of extremist" and violent" that have marked the
party, and beyond charismatic leaders like Huey Newton, Bobby
Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, were the ordinary men and women who
made up the Panther rank and file.In The Black Panthers ,
photojournalist Bryan Shih and historian Yohuru Williams offer a
reappraisal of the party's history and legacy. Through stunning
portraits and interviews with surviving Panthers, as well as
illuminating essays by leading scholars, The Black Panthers reveals
party members' grit and battle scars,and the undying love for the
people that kept them going.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s is now remembered
as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism
were soon eclipsed by angry, confrontational Black Power activists.
However, far from marking the end of an era, as is commonly
thought, the 1965 Voting Rights Act wrested open a dam holding back
radical political impulses. This political explosion initially took
the form of the Black Power Movement, which, though conventionally
adjudged a failure, in fact laid the groundwork for a crucial new
wave of black leadership culminating in the inauguration of Barack
Obama. In "Dark Days, Bright Nights," acclaimed scholar Peniel E.
Joseph elucidates Black Power's forgotten achievements by retelling
the story of the movement through the lives of activists,
intellectuals, and artists including Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael,
Amiri Baraka, and Barack Obama. In so doing, Joseph re-assesses a
half-century fraught with struggle to expose the Black Power
movement's resounding triumphs and continuing influence on American
democracy.
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