We are an African people : independent education, black power, and the radical imagination /

Rickford, Russell John,

We are an African people : independent education, black power, and the radical imagination / Russell Rickford. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination -- Community Control and the Struggle for Black Education in the 1960s -- Black Studies and the Politics of "Relevance" -- The Evolution of Movement Schools -- African Restoration and the Promise and Pitfalls of Cultural Politics -- The Maturation of Pan African Nationalism -- The Black University and the "Total Community" -- The Black Institution Depression -- Epilogue : Afrocentrism and the Neoliberal Ethos.



9780190455637 9780199861484


African Americans--Education--History--20th century.
African American schools--History--20th century.
Black power--History--United States--20th century.
Black nationalism--History--United States--20th century.
Racism in education--History--United States--20th century.
Discrimination in education--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic Books.

LC2741 / .W437 2015