{"product_id":"soul-power-9780822336914","title":"Soul Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cultural history of activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the \"long 1960s.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I read \u003ci\u003eSoul Power\u003c\/i\u003e with a combination of pleasure and intellectual profit that is rare to come across in academic writing these days. There is so much fresh material here, supported by provocative theses. The result is a welcome challenge to the seasoned reader of postwar American culture and politics.”—Andrew Ross, author of \u003ci\u003eFast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eSoul Power\u003c\/i\u003e, Cynthia A. Young recovers the important hidden history of internationalism and world-transcending citizenship within the U.S. Black Freedom movement of the mid-twentieth century. This lively, engrossing, and engaging study reveals how commitments to global justice permeated the actions and ideas of Black trade union organizers, armed self-defense groups, community-based nationalists, visionary filmmakers, and radical feminists. Young demonstrates that the ferment and upheaval in Black communities in the mid-twentieth century did not just generate demands for equal rights inside the U.S. nation but raised as well programs aimed at ending imperialism, colonialism, and exploitation around the world.”—George Lipsitz, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies in a Moment of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSoul Power\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to the study of US radicalism, highlighting the roles African Americans and other people of color played in these movements. Considering the ambitious range of her project, Young delivers an admirable mix of breadth and depth, covering a number of individuals and organizations and their relevance to the development of the US Third World Left. The carefully chronicled historiography provides a valuable foundation for further investigations of this period.” -- Rychetta N. Watkins * MELUS *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he great virtue of \u003ci\u003eSoul Power\u003c\/i\u003e is to complicate our understandings of 1960s-era social movements. \u003ci\u003eSoul Power \u003c\/i\u003esuccessfully challenges New Left narratives that place the activities of white middleclass youths at their center, and civil rights narratives that concentrate on the struggle against racial oppression while ignoring that against class oppression. By focusing on a series of important, fascinating, and neglected historical actors, Young offers us a much richer understanding of the 1960s-era left.” -- Daniel Geary * Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Havana Up in Harlem and Down in Monroe: Armed Revolt and the Making of a Cultural Revolution 18\u003cbr\u003e 2. Union Power, Soul Power: Class Struggle by Cultural Means 54\u003cbr\u003e 3. Newsreel: Rethinking the Filmmaking Arm of the New Left 100\u003cbr\u003e 4. Third World Newsreel Visualizes the Internal Colony 145\u003cbr\u003e 5. Angela Y. Davis and U.S. Third World Left Theory and Praxis 184\u003cbr\u003e 6. Shot in Watts: Film and State Violence in the 1970s 209\u003cbr\u003e Coda 245\u003cbr\u003e Notes 253\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography and Filmography 271\u003cbr\u003e Index 295","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406040506711,"sku":"9780822336914","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822336914.jpg?v=1730494337","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/soul-power-9780822336914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}