| | |  | Identity & Access Management | Home » » Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism | | | | | | | Description: | | In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism. Unique in his belief that the destiny of African Americans could not be separated from that of oppressed people the world over, Carmichael's Black Power principles insisted that blacks resist white brainwashing and redefine themselves. He was concerned not only with racism and exploitation, but with cultural integrity and the colonization of Africans in America. In these essays on racism, Black Power, the pitfalls of conventional liberalism, and solidarity with the oppressed masses and freedom fighters of all races and creeds, Carmichael addresses questions that still confront the black world and points to a need for an ideology of black and African liberation, unification, and transformation. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) | | Paperback:
| 256 pages | | Publisher:
| Lawrence Hill Books | | Publication Date:
| February 01, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1556526490 | | Product Length:
| 8.28 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.52 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.64 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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A document of it's timesJan 23, 2007
By Andre M.
"brnn64"
It always amuses me when I hear modern conservatives dismiss Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson as "radicals." Puh-leeze! These guys are boy scouts compared to what the Stoke was putting down in the late 60s and early 70s.
This book contains some interesting (to say the least) messages from the wild man of the Black Power movement. Since Min. Farrakhan is gravely ill these days and Khallid Muhammad is now dead, this type of rhetoric is seldom heard these days.
The book begins with the Stoke telling a Black Mississippi audience about the irrelevance of learing "good English" (i.e., assimilation). Then we read some early Black Power speeches. The ones at Berkeley and the Free Huey rally (in particular) mixes street corner jive, pretzel logic, and intellectualism. The talk about "honkeys" and his outright calls for violent retaliation will shock many today (the original 1971 cover had our man angrily holding up a rifle).
On one hand, he does tell ghetto blacks to be proud of who they are, and he speaks out against what blacks of the time had to endure and the Vietnam War, but this is mixed with the most reactionary forms of Black nationalism. He goes on about "offing" blacks who do not come around to his way of thinking. In a 1970 speech, he admits that some of this wild-man rhetoric was "entertainment" to shake black audiences out of their apathy (not mentioned is the fact that on at least three occasions-Watts in 1966, Fisk in 1967, and Washington DC in 1968, audiences swayed by his speeches committed acts of violence-see the autobiographies of Karl Flemming, John Hope Franklin, and Ralph Abernathy for details) and he moved on to a philosophy of Marxist Pan-Africanism, which the later speeches reflect. Ethel Minor, the book's editor, acknowledges these chages in the Stoke's philosophy and defends him from those who criticize him for lack of consistancy. Compare this book to his more humanistic autobiography "Ready for Revolution."
It is easy to condemn Stoke as a jive artist, rabble rouser, and race-baiting huckster (some people who I know who knew Stokely personally have done just that). I make no excuses for some aspects of this book, but it is important to place all this in a historical context. For one thing, it was inevitable that many Blacks of that time would have been embittered over what they experienced and the sad truth is that much of what Stoke was saying publicly could be heard in private among disgruntled African-Americans of the time in private. Stoke himself was arrested and beaten numerous times in the deep South in the Civil Rights era before changing his srategy to that of Black power.
So in a way, this book could be viewed as an expose of what was really going on in the minds of many African-Americans as a result of the oppression faced in that era.
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