Americans from Africa

Contents Preface to the Transaction Edition Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction I. BLACK PROTEST Who Was Nat Turner? 1 Day to Day Resistance to Slavery Raymond Bauer and Alice Bauer 2 The Roots of Black Nationalism Eugene D. Genovese 3 Gabriel's Insurrection Gerald W. Mullin 4 The Confessions of Nat Turner as Told to Thomas R. Gray Nat Turner 5 William Styron: A Shared Ordeal George Plimpton 6 The White Nat Turner Mike Thelwell Suggested Readings Freedom Now! 7 Radicals and Conservatives: Black Protest in Twentieth-Century America August Meier and Elliott Rudwick 8 The Social Context of Militancy Gary T. Marx 9 The Crisis Which Bred Black Power Nathan Wright, Jr. 10 The Americanization of Frantz Fanon Aristide Zolberg and Vera Zolberg 11 The Revolutionary Myth Lewis M. Killian Suggested Readings II. IN QUEST OF COMMUNITY Whither Black Power? 12 What We Want Stokely Carmichael 13 What Black Power Means to Negroes in Mississippi Joyce Ladner 14 The Trouble with Black Power Christopher Lasch 15 Black Rebellion and White Reaction Aaron Wildavsky 16 Where Do We Go From Here? Martin Luther King, Jr. Suggested Readings Negroes Nevermore 17 The Concept of Identity in Race Relations Erik H. Erikson 18 The Self-Image of the Negro American Alvin F. Poussaint 19 Mood Ebony: The Acceptance of Being Black C. Eric Lincoln 20 What's in a Name? Lerone Bennett, Jr. 21 Africa Conscious Harlem Richard B. Moore 22 The American Negro Cannot Look to Africa for an Escape Tom Mboya 23 Black Culture: Myth or Reality? Robert Blauner Suggested Readings Index