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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn a pathbreaking analysis, Joyce M. Bell shows again how black Americans have been this society's most important driving force for social justice. By analyzing the role of a key player in the understudied Black Power movement, the National Association of Black Social Workers, Bell illustrates that movement's brilliant antiracist strategies and transforming impacts in separate black organizations and within historically white organizations. -- Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University Bell has added considerable depth and detailed analysis on the development of Black professional associations by filling a research gap in the existing literature concerning the institutionalization of the Black liberation movement during the age of Black Power. Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics Historians wishing to explore black power's deeper nuances will find this sociological study of "intra-organizational social movements" a good entry point. Journal of American History This study is a rich resource on both the development of Black professional organizations, as well as the influence of social movements in American society. -- Wilma Peebles-Wilkins Journal of Sociology & Social Work
Table of ContentsForeword, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Race, Resistance, and the Civil Sphere 2. Re-envisioning the Black Power Movement 3. The Rise of the Black Power Professional 4. "A Nice Social Tea Party": The Rocky Relationship Between Social Work and Black Liberation 5. "We Stand Before You, Not as a Separatist Body": The Techni-Culture Movement to Gain Voice in the National Federation of Settlements 6. "We'll Build Our Own Thing": The Exit Strategy of the National Association of Black Social Workers 7. Exit and Voice in Intra-Organizational Social Movements 8. Conclusion: Institutionalizing Black Power Appendix 1: Methods Appendix 2: Founding Dates of Black Professional Associations Notes References Index
