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Black nationalism, political and social movement prominent in the 1960s and early ’70s in the United States that gained popularity among Black Americans. The movement sought to acquire economic power and to infuse among Black people a sense of community and group feeling.
Black nationalism is a nationalist movement which seeks representation for black people as a distinct national identity, especially in racialized, colonial and postcolonial societies.
Both the Black Power Movement and the Black Arts Movement are often connected to masculinism and patriarchy, but Black feminist writers engage with nationalism as well and refuse limiting ideas around identity, as seen in the work of Elaine Brown and Alice Walker.
The Nation of Islam argued that equality for black Americans could only be achieved by black and white Americans living in separate states. Many people, including other black Americans who ...
Oct 1, 2006 · That insight is a product of recent scholarship that has refrained the study of U.S. race relations and the civil rights movement within an international setting. In addition, scholarship on transnational black politics and radicalism has helped uncover the significance of Ghana and other African independence movements for African American ...
- Kevin Gaines
- 2006
Black nationalism. In the late 1960s, the civil rights movement changed focus. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr continued to emphasise moderation but other black leaders promoted different approaches...
Mar 5, 2016 · Black nationalists’ activism, which the FBI and state authorities had widely suppressed by the mid-1970s, continued through organizations like the National Black United Front. Founded in 1980 by delegates from thirty-five states and five countries, it pledged to “struggle for self-determination.”
