Introduction : Black power in hemispheric perspective / Wilfried Raussert and Matti Steinitz -- The roots of Canadian Black power : Thomas Peters and the struggle for Black freedom in the eighteenth century / Afua Cooper -- Before "Black Power" there was Black power : Garveyism and public performance culture in the American hemisphere / Wilifried Raussert -- Black Reconstruction and Black power : W.E.B. Du Bois and the radical roots of 1968 / John Munro -- Hemispheric ambassador of Black power : Carlos E. Russell and the practice of Pan-Afro-Americanism between New York and Panama / Matti Steinitz -- "The Goose and the Gander" : Frantz Fanon and the rhetoric of violence in the Black Power Movement / Portia Owusu -- Revolutionary alliance : Black power, Brown power, and radical ethnic nationalism (1966-1973) / Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar -- The United States, American Black radicalism, and the anti-imperialist struggle in Latin America : a study of Stokely Carmichael's 1967 visit to Cuba / Valeria L. Carbone -- Black movements in Latin America, 1970-2000 / George Reid Andrews -- Black Power Cubano - African American and Afro-Cuban movements between solidarity, repression, and contradictions / Alberto Abreu Arcia -- The act and the shadow : social, artistic, and cultural influences of the Black power era in Colombia / Angel Perea Escobar -- The Quilombo Movement in Brazil : becoming visible, becoming multivocal / Carla Guerrón Montero -- Soul music and sisterhood as expressions of Black power / Kensedeobong Blessed Okosun -- Black Rio : music, politics, and Black identity / Carlos Alberto Medeiros -- Afro-knowledge, sonic aesthetics, and the musical practices of "Latin Beats" / Angel G. Quintero-Rivera -- Dancehall culture and elements of Black power / Lisa Tomlinson.
Summary:
"When SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael first called for "Black Power" on a Civil Rights march in 1966 he not only gave name to a movement that shaped one of the most significant periods of the African American freedom struggle in the USA. His background as son of migrants from Trinidad and Tobago also gives an indication on the international dimension of the Black Power movement. Black Power was informed by the ideas of Afro-diasporic intellectuals and Pan-Africanists such as W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and Malcolm X. Deeply rooted in practices of Black transnationalism, Black Power heralded a new era of African American defiance, militancy, and cultural awareness, which transcended the U.S. and left its footprints throughout the Hemisphere, providing marginalized communities beyond national and cultural boundaries with meaningful symbols of resistance and self-affirmation in the face of racial oppression. Black Power's hemispheric impact encouraged the emergence of musical genres, antiracist movements, and border-crossing networks of solidarity among Afro-descendants in the Caribbean, Latin and North America, and continues to be a source of inspiration for the political and cultural expressions of the Black Americas in the 21st century as manifested by the Black Lives Matter movement. This compilation of essays by scholars and activists intends to fill an important gap by addressing Black Power within a historical, polyvocal and multi-locational approach shedding light on manifestations of Black Power from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, the United States and their entanglements"-- Provided by publisher.
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