The New Black History Revisiting the Second Reconstruction

The New Black Historyanthology presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture, especially during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. The volume includes articles by both established scholars and a rising generation of young scholars and demonstrates a profound analysis of black American history since 1954. The New Black History fills a gap in existing literature on post-World War II African-American History by providing an in-depth historical narrative that also offers critical interpretation of key issues, persons, and events that have come to define the field in recent years.

Manning Marable has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City. Peniel Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University.

Introduction: Black Intellectuals and the World They Made—Manning Marable * Part I. Disrupting Regional Boundaries * Housing, Urban Development, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the Post-Civil Rights Era South—John A. Kirk * The Pressures of the People: Milton A. Galamison, the Parents’ Workshop, and Resistance to School Integration in New York City, 1960-1963—Lisa Yvette Waller * The Campus and the Street: Race, Migration, and the Origins of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA—Donna Murch * Part II. Transnational Dimensions * Spokesman of the Oppressed? Lorraine Hansberry at Work: The Challenge of Radical Politics in the Postwar Era— Rebeccah Welch * Black Crusaders: The Transnational Circuit of Robert and Mabel Williams—Robeson Taj Frazier * Peace Was the Glue: Europe and African American Freedom—Brenda Gayle Plummer * Yellow Power: The Formation of Asian-American Nationalism in the Age of Black Power, 1966-1975—Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar * The Congress of African People: Baraka, Brother Mao, and the Year of ’74—Robeson Taj  Frazier *  Part III. Disrupting Internal Boundaries * Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: Reconceptualizing the Heroic Period of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965—Peniel E. Joseph * Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s—Peniel E. Joseph * Protection or Path Toward Revolution?: Black Power and Self-Defense—Simon Wendt * The Black Bolsheviks: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements and Shop-Floor Organizing—Elizabeth Kai Hinton * Part IV. Struggling for Community Control and Autonomy * Septima Clark: Organizing for Positive Freedom—Stephen Lazar * Building a Black Nation: CORE, Black Power, and the Community Development Corporation Movement—Nishani Frazier * Black is Beautiful But So Is Green: Capitalism, Black Power, and Politics in Floyd McKissick’s Soul City—Zachary Gillan * Integration, Black Nationalism and Radical Transformation in African-American Philosophies of Education, 1965-1974—Russell Rickford