Soul Power Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U. S. Third World Left

Name: Soul Power Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U. S. Third World Left
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ISBN: 9780822336914

ISBN-10: 082233691X

ISBN-13: 9780822336914

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cynthia A. Young

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"Soul Power" is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls "U.S. Third World Leftists," activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the "long 1960s." Nearly thirty countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America declared formal independence in the 1960s alone. Arguing that the significance of this wave of decolonization to U.S. activists has been vastly underestimated, Young describes how literature, films, ideologies, and political movements that originated in the Third World were absorbed by U.S. activists of color. She shows how these transnational…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Havana Up in Harlem and Down in Monroe: Armed Revolt and the Making of a Cultural Revolution



Union Power, Soul Power: Class Struggle by Cultural Means



Newsreel: Rethinking the Filmmaking Arm of the New Left



Third World Newsreel Visualizes the Internal Colony



Angela Y. Davis and U.S. Third World Left Theory and Praxis



Shot in Watts: Film and State Violence in the 1970s


Coda


Notes


Bibliography and Filmography


Index