The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention.

Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors around to write original essays on the Black Power Movement. Taken together they provide a critical and much needed historical overview of the Black Power era. Offering important examples of undocumented histories of black liberation, this volume offers both powerful and poignant examples of 'Black Power Studies' scholarship.

Peniel E. Joseph is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. He is the author of Waiting'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of BlackPower in America.