While scholarship on the modern Civil Rights Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black…
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James Forman's Black Manifesto demanded 500 million in reparations from the nation's white churches and synagogues for their financial, moral, and spiritual complicity in the centuries of injustice carried out upon African Americans. Many African-American ministers in the North …
This dissertation examines a distinct period in the history of the US Organization, a cultural nationalist formation based in Southern California. The time frame of this study, roughly from 1965 until the early ‘70s, highlights US’ role within the prism of a popular resurgence i…
This thesis explores the relationships between the national Black Power Movement and desegregation politics in North Carolina higher education in the late 1960s and 1970s. During this time, North Carolina’s system of higher education remained embroiled in a battle to stall integ…
This dissertation asserts that institutions indigenous to the African diaspora facilitate transnational exchanges between black social movements by encouraging organizations and activists to identify with each other across national boundaries. Using the research methods of conte…
"When the radical political theorist HP Newton faced the popular psychoanalyst EH Erikson across a table in the library of a Yale college their discourse reflected that between Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg on the Polish question half a century earlier. After the rise and fall of the…
