Description
This groundbreaking volume analyzes important case studies of Black political movements since the 1960s and the impact of the movements on the African American community. Herein, Walters analyzes heretofore largely unaddressed cases in which African American societies forged connections with others in the Diaspora within the framework of significant political movements.
Walters uses the tools of comparative politics for examining similar Black and white social institutions and organizations in the US and other countries and for creating a "tailored" Pan African perspective as a criteria with which to describe the interactive relationships between the American Black community and Blacks in Britain, South Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He fashions a unique and radically new perspective and model for addressing the age-old question of the African continuum by advancing the notion that Pan Africanism can be about the struggle for community - a struggle not incompatible with efforts to change the State. His is a twenty-first century view of race relations and classes in the post-modern era of capitalism.Author: Ronald W. Walters
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 05/01/1997
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.96w x 0.98d
ISBN13: 9780814321850
ISBN10: 0814321852
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | Africa | General
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | General
About the Author
Ronald W. Walters, a Professor of Afro-American Studies, Government and Politics and Senior Fellow at the Center for Political Leadership, University of Maryland, received his Ph.D. from American University. His books include Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign and Black Presidential Politics in America, winner of the Ralph Bunche Prize and the W. E. B. DuBois Award.