Black Power, White Heat From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic
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Biografisk notat
Alice Echols is Professor of History at the University of Southern California. She is the author of numerous books, including Daring to Be Bad, Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture.1966"The standard account of the evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle holds that the rise of Black Power in the mid to late 1960s undermined and effectively ended the interracialism that had previously characterized the movement. Echols convincingly refutes and complicates this canonical story, making her book indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding, not only the history of the struggle, but the challenges inherent in racial justice organizing today.
Doug McAdam, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor, Stanford University
During nearly four decades, historian Alice Echols has been researching and brilliantly analyzing the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s providing complex insights that help us understand the troubled progressive politics of today. Focusing on the militant Black-led 1960-founded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party, established in 1966 the book comes at a dire time, providing us with a vision of action and solidarity.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Was inter-racial solidarity possible in the Sixties or any other decade? In this absorbing and sophisticated narrative of American radicalism - from the rise of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s to the demise of the Black Panthers a decade later - Alice Echols offers a provocative yet compelling yes, an affirmation that is never saccharine or sentimental, but rather unvarnished and strategic. A highlight of the book is her meticulous and devastating takedown of Tom Wolfe, the conservative writer who popularized the idea that liberal whites identifying with the movement for racial justice were mere "radical chic" poseurs.
Nelson Lichtenstein, Co-editor of Labor's Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
Blacks and whites, radicals and liberals, bureaucrats and front-line activists: in the struggle for progressive social change, can these marriages be saved? In this fascinating study, Alice Echols delves unflinchingly into some of the deepest challenges progressive coalition-builders can face.
Rick Perlstein, Author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
1966"The standard account of the evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle holds that the rise of Black Power in the mid to late 1960s undermined and effectively ended the interracialism that had previously characterized the movement. Echols convincingly refutes and complicates this canonical story, making her book indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding, not only the history of the struggle, but the challenges inherent in racial justice organizing today.
Doug McAdam, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor, Stanford University
During nearly four decades, historian Alice Echols has been researching and brilliantly analyzing the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s providing complex insights that help us understand the troubled progressive politics of today. Focusing on the militant Black-led 1960-founded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party, established in 1966 the book comes at a dire time, providing us with a vision of action and solidarity.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Was inter-racial solidarity possible in the Sixties or any other decade? In this absorbing and sophisticated narrative of American radicalism - from the rise of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s to the demise of the Black Panthers a decade later - Alice Echols offers a provocative yet compelling yes, an affirmation that is never saccharine or sentimental, but rather unvarnished and strategic. A highlight of the book is her meticulous and devastating takedown of Tom Wolfe, the conservative writer who popularized the idea that liberal whites identifying with the movement for racial justice were mere "radical chic" poseurs.
Nelson Lichtenstein, co-editor of Labor's Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
Blacks and whites, radicals and liberals, bureaucrats and front-line activists: in the struggle for progressive social change, can these marriages be saved? In this fascinating study, Alice Echols delves unflinchingly into some of the deepest challenges progressive coalition-builders can face.
Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
1966"The standard account of the evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle holds that the rise of Black Power in the mid to late 1960s undermined and effectively ended the interracialism that had previously characterized the movement. Echols convincingly refutes and complicates this canonical story, making her book indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding, not only the history of the struggle, but the challenges inherent in racial justice organizing today.
Doug McAdam, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor, Stanford University
During nearly four decades, historian Alice Echols has been researching and brilliantly analyzing the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s providing complex insights that help us understand the troubled progressive politics of today. Focusing on the militant Black-led 1960-founded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party, established in 1966 the book comes at a dire time, providing us with a vision of action and solidarity.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Was inter-racial solidarity possible in the Sixties or any other decade? In this absorbing and sophisticated narrative of American radicalism – from the rise of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s to the demise of the Black Panthers a decade later - Alice Echols offers a provocative yet compelling yes, an affirmation that is never saccharine or sentimental, but rather unvarnished and strategic. A highlight of the book is her meticulous and devastating takedown of Tom Wolfe, the conservative writer who popularized the idea that liberal whites identifying with the movement for racial justice were mere "radical chic" poseurs.
Nelson Lichtenstein, co-editor of Labor's Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
Blacks and whites, radicals and liberals, bureaucrats and front-line activists: in the struggle for progressive social change, can these marriages be saved? In this fascinating study, Alice Echols delves unflinchingly into some of the deepest challenges progressive coalition-builders can face.
Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America