The Challenge of Blackness
The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19976513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derrick E White (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 260 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The challenge of blackness (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University Press of Florida (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5744/florida/9780813037356.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4244897779 |
| Open Library | OL25170120M |
| ISBN | 9780813037356 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
This book examines how the Institute of the Black World (IBW), led by historian, theologian, and political activist Vincent Harding, mobilized Black intellectuals in identifying strategy to continue the Black Freedom Struggle in the 1970s. Harding and colleagues founded the IBW in Atlanta, Georgia in 1969. Under Harding's leadership, it became an activist think tank that evaluated Black Studies for emerging programs, developed a Black political agenda for the 1970s with Black elected officials and grassroots activists, and mediated ideological conflicts among Black activists. Relying on the input from an array of activist-intellectuals, the IBW eschewed ideological rigidity, whether in the form of liberalism, Marxism, or Black Nationalism, for a synthetic and pragmatic analytic framework forged through debate and designed to generate the largest amount of political and activist support. It used its network of intellectuals and activists to emphasize structural racism and a racialized political economy, each of which was designed to foster broad consensus in the Black activist community on difficult issues in the 1970s
Grassroots · Ideology · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 20th century · African American intellectuals · African americans · Black People · Blacks · History · Institute of the Black World · Intellectual life · Intellectuals · Social conditions · Study and teaching
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |