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Author Austin, Algernon, author.

Title Achieving blackness : race, Black nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the twentieth century / Algernon Austin
Published New York : New York University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Making races -- Asiatic identity in the Nation of Islam -- Achieving blackness during the Black power era -- The racial structures of Black power -- The racial ideology of Afrocentrism -- Conservative Black nationalism in the Afrocentric era -- Change in Black nationalism in the 20th century -- Making races, making ethnicities
Summary "Achieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the "Afrocentric era" of the 1980s through 1990s Austin shows how theories of race have shaped ideas about the meaning of "Blackness" within different time periods of the twentieth-century. Achieving Blackness provides both a fascinating history of Blackness and a theoretically challenging understanding of race and ethnicity. Austin traces how Blackness was defined by cultural ideas, social practices and shared identities as well as shaped in response to the social and historical conditions at different moments in American history. Analyzing black public opinion on black nationalism and its relationship with class, Austin challenges the commonly held assumption that black nationalism is a lower class phenomenon. In a refreshing and final move, he makes a compelling argument for rethinking contemporary theories of race away from the current fascination with physical difference, which he contends sweeps race back to its misconceived biological underpinnings. Achieving Blackness is a wonderful contribution to the sociology of race and African American Studies"--Publisher description
Analysis Achieving
Blackness
States
United
black
complexities
context
ethnicity
examination
important
movements
nationalist
offers
race
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-281) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Afrocentrism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Black Muslims -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
African Americans -- Race identity
Afrocentrism
Black Muslims
Black nationalism
Schwarze
Nationalbewusstsein
Muslim
Ethnische Beziehungen
Afrozentrismus
Ethnische Identität
Nationalismus
Islam
United States
USA
Schwärze
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005030046
ISBN 9780814763902
0814763901