Black Power Ideologies: An Essay in African-American Political Thought

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Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Background to Black Power Imbalances and Injustices Against African-Americans * Theories About Why Inequality Persists * The Context of Black Protest 2. Black Nationalist Thought in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Colonization Movement: A Profile * Reactions to and Criticisms of Colonization * The Ideology of the Colonization Movement * The Tactics of the Pan-Negro Nationalists * Pan-Negro Nationalism and Beyond 3. The Abolitionist Movement Early Abolitionism, 1645 to 1807 * Abolitionism from 1807 to 1870 * The Ideology of the Abolitionist Movement * Frederick Douglass: A Profile * The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass * The Tactics of the Abolitionists * Abolitionism and Beyond 4. The Politics of Accommodation Booker T. Washington: A Profile * Booker T. Washington's Philosophy of Education * The Social and Political Thought of Booker T. Washington * The Tactics of Booker T. Washington * Opposition to Booker T. Washington 5. Marcus Garvey and the Resurgence of Black Nationalism Racial Equality by Integration: A Survey * Garvey's Early Career * Garvey's Later Career and the Garvey Movement * The Political Thought of Garvey * Garvey's Organization and Tactics * Minor Expressions of Black Nationalism 6. Martin Luther King and Moralism The Moralist Approach: A Profile * King's Background and Intellectual Influences * King's Philosophy of Nonviolence * The Political Thought of King * King's Tactics * King and the Black Power Challenge 7. What Is Black Power? The Range of Usages of the Term Black Power * Reshaping the Categories of Black Power * Commonalities in the Usage of Black Power * Martin Luther King, Jr., and Black Power 8. The Counter-Communalists: A Comparison and Analysis Huey Newton's Background and Intellectual Influences * The Political Thought of Huey Newton * Huey Newton and the Tactics of Counter-Communalism * Other Counter-Communalists on Tactics 9. The Black Power Pluralists: A Comparison and Analysis Shirley Chisholm's Background and Intellectual Influences * The Political Thought of Shirley Chisholm * Other Pluralists on the American System * Shirley Chisholm on the Obstacles to True Pluralism in the United States * Other Pluralists on the Obstacles to Democracy * Shirley Chisholm and the Case for Black Power Pluralism * Other Pluralist Visions of the Good Society * The Tactics of Pluralism 10. The Black Power Separatists: A Comparison and Analysis Elijah Muhammad's Background and Career * The Political Theology of Elijah Muhammad * Elements of Elijah Muhammad's Political Theory * The Tactics of Separatism: The Black Muslims * Other Separatists on Tactics: Imamu Baraka and Imari Obadele I 11. A Critical Assessment of the Black Power Ideologies The Paradoxes in the Goals of the Black Power Ideologies * Malcolm X and the Dilemmas of Black Power * The Life of Malcolm X and Its Meaning for the Black Power Movement * Black Power and Individualism * Black Power and the Intellectual * Permanent Contributions of the Black Power Ideologies Notes Bibliography Index