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Since its dramatic growth under Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association during the 1920s, black nationalism has played a central role in American political and intellectual life. In Modern Black Nationalism, William L. Van Deburg has collected the most influential speeches, pamphlets, and articles that trace the development of black nationalism in the 20th century.

Beginning with Marcus Garvey, the acknowledged father of the 20th-century movement, William L. Van Deburg here provides a showcase of the work of more than fifty prominent thinkers including Louis Farrakhan, Elijah Muhammad, Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa, Amiri Baraka and Molefi Asante. Rare pamphlets distributed by organizations such as the Black Panther Party, articles from underground magazines, and memos from governmental officials offer a fresh look at the roots and the manifestations of this movement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #805181 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-01
• Released on: 1996-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From Library Journal
This wide-ranging selection of 52 documents in 37 sections locates black nationalism's historical roots and 20th-century sprawl. With an incisive introduction and headnotes, historian Van Deburg (African American studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) insightfully maps the movement's diversity and doctrinal debates, from its foundations to its expression in the Black Power era and into today. The persistent vitality and attraction of black nationalism's core concepts of self-definition and self-determination emerge from the variety of sources?interviews, speeches, pamphlets, and essays. Although the book is without competition as a multifaceted documentary text of modern black nationalism's theoretical assumptions, operational agenda, and promotional efforts, it complements Wilson J. Moses's Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey (New York Univ. Pr., 1996) and Van Deburg's New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 (LJ 8/92). Highly recommended for collections on blacks and U.S. political ideology.?Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
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About the Author

William L. Van Deburg is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His previous books include New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975, and Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture.