Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-280) and index.
Contents
Introduction : all power to the people? -- The "Negro revolution" and Cold War America : revolutionary politics and racial conservatism in the work of Harold Cruse -- Return of the native : Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), the new nationalism, and Black power politics -- The convention strategy and conventional politics : the 1972 Gary convention and the limits of racial unity -- From popular anti-imperialism to sectarianism : the African Liberation Day mobilizations and radical intellectuals -- Radical departures : the National Black Political Assembly, the National Black Independent Political Party, and the struggle for alternatives -- Conclusion : the ends of Black politics.