Format:
Online-Ressource (61 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9783954892051
Content:
This book tracks the evolution of Malcolm X from a racist, espousing the essentialist ideals of the Nation of Islam to a human rights activist, aware of the broader early 1960's struggle against imperial forces. Central to this was his strategic use of race to unite African-American initially and then the oppressed people in the world. Race was used as a strategy with the aim to abolish racial oppression. In the first chapter of this study we look at the constraints, most notably the white power structure, present in the United States during the mid-1960s which, on one hand gave form to Malcol
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Malcolm X; Tale of contents; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE DOMESTIC PARAMETERS: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE STRATEGIC USE OF RACE; 1.1. Black Solidarity as a Reaction to American Racism; 1.2 Whiteness as a Site of Privilege; 1.3 Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Bourgeoisie/ Elite and the Grassroots.; 2 THE NTERNATIONAL DIMENSION: PAN AFRICANISM, SUBALTERN POLITICS AND ISLAM; 2.1. Recovering a Lost Base: The (Re)turn to Africa; 2.2 Blackness as Oppression: Malcolm X and Pragmatic Nationalism; 2.3 Universal, yet Exclusive: Islam in Malcolm X's Political Ideology; 3 CONCLUSION
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783954897056
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783954892051
Additional Edition:
Print version Malcolm X: The Pragmatic Nationalist
Language:
English
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