{"product_id":"organizing-your-own-9781479814145","title":"Organizing Your Own","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fascinating history of white solidarity with the Black Power movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-1960s, as the politics of Black self-determination gained steam, Black activists had a new message for white activists: Go into your own communities and organize white people against racism. While much of the media at the time and many historians since have regarded this directive as a white purge from the Black freedom movement, Say Burgin argues that it heralded a new strategy, racially parallel organizing, which people experimented with all over the country. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the Black freedom movement never experienced a white purge, and it offers a new way of understanding Black Power's relationship to white America.\u003cbr\u003eBy focusing on Detroit from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s, this volume illuminates a wide cross-section of white activists who took direction from Black-led groups like the Northern Student Movement, the City-Wide Citizens Action Committee\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MI - New York University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409056080215,"sku":"9781479814145","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479814145.jpg?v=1730505272","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/organizing-your-own-9781479814145","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}