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The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era

The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era

Henderson, Errol A.

Hardcover

Series: Suny African American Studies

Black American History20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 1438475438
ISBN13: 9781438475431
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 1 2019
Pages: 514
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ʼ70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

The study of the impact of Black Power Movement (BPM) activists and organizations in the 1960s through ʼ70s has largely been confined to their role as proponents of social change; but they were also theorists of the change they sought. In The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized Errol A. Henderson explains this theoretical contribution and places it within a broader social theory of black revolution in the United States dating back to nineteenth-century black intellectuals. These include black nationalists, feminists, and anti-imperialists; activists and artists of the Harlem Renaissance; and early Cold War-era black revolutionists. The book first elaborates W. E. B. Du Bois's thesis of the General Strike during the Civil War, Alain Locke's thesis relating black culture to political and economic change, Harold Cruse's work on black cultural revolution, and Malcolm X's advocacy of black cultural and political revolution in the United States. Henderson then critically examines BPM revolutionists' theorizing regarding cultural and political revolution and the relationship between them in order to realize their revolutionary objectives. Focused more on importing theory from third world contexts that were dramatically different from the United States, BPM revolutionists largely ignored the theoretical template for black revolution most salient to their case, which undermined their ability to theorize a successful black revolution in the United States.

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