Engines of the Black Power Movement

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   vi
Preface   1

I : CULTURAL ANALYSIS   3
1. The Spiral Group: Defining African American Art During the Civil Rights Movement   5
2. Jazz Musicians in Europe: 1919 to 1945   21

II : BLACK POWER ANALYSIS   41
3. Black Power, Chicago Politics, and Social Movements: What Have We Learned?   43
4. A Critical Assessment of the Educational Mission and Praxis of the Black Arts Movement   58
5. The Congressional Black Caucus: Black Power Realized?   72

III : BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT ANALYSIS 93
6. Us, Kawaida and the Black Liberation Movement in the 1960s: Culture, Knowledge and Struggle   95
7. The Black Arts Movement in Omaha, Nebraska   134
8. The Role of the Africana Writer in an Era of Struggle—The Case of Hoyt W. Fuller and the Black Arts Movement,1961–1981: A Kawaida-Location Analysis   143

IV : AFRICAN AMERICANS AND ISLAM 157
9. The Nation of Islam: An Historiography of Pan-Africanist Thought and Intellectualism   159
10. Understanding Elijah Muhammad   184
11. Noble Drew Ali: An Historical Perspective   195
12. Islam in the Civil Rights Movement   201

V : CIVIL RIGHTS AND REDEMPTION 207
13. Pathologies of Public Housing: An Antecedent to Crime and Delinquency   209
14. Constitutionalism Within the Political Ideologies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.   225
15. Revising the Best Western View: Civil Rights, Wilderness, and Racial Relocation   240
16. Guilt by Association: Women as Participants and Victims of Lynching   272

About the Contributors   285
Index   287