POLITICS OF BLACK NATIONALISM FROM HARLEM TO SOWETO (Paper Cover)

Table of Content

• Chapter 1: The Roots of Black Consiousness:
  • Black Nationalism vs the Imperial Ideology
  • The Quarrel with the Old Ideology
  • The Race-class Equation: Theoretical Basis of Racism
  • Black Profile in the 19th century Africa
  • The Socio-Economic Orgins of the New Negro
  • Forerunners of the Renaissance
  • The Rise of Harlem
• Chapter 2: Black is Beautilful:
  • The Affirmative Racial Strategies of Black Nationalism
  • The ideology of Blackness
  • Popular Ideological patterns
  • The Alliance with the Black Underdog
• Chapter 3: The Rise of Black Militancy:
  • The Rejectionist Cultural Strategies of
  • Black Nationalism
  • The Background to Black Militancy
  • Black Militancy and the Rejection of White Superiority
  • The Rejection of Western Civilisation
• Chapter 4: Afro-centric and Pan-African Strategies
  • Africa and the Pre-Garvey Sentiment
  • The Influence of Marcus Gravey
  • The Affirmation of the African Heritage
  • The Pan-African Influence
  • The Poets and their Afro-Centric Strategies
• Chapter 5: Trans-Atlantic Ideological Collaboration:
  • US-South-African Links
  • Colonial Rule and Genesis of Apartheid
  • Apartheid as an Ideology
  • Policy on Education
  • Black Cultural Expression between World Wars I & II
  • Antecedents of Cultural Expression
  • The Writers: Peter Abraham, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Alex La Guma, Dennis Brutus, Nadine Gordimor
  • The New Rebel Voices
  • Links with the US
  • The US: The Post-World War II Period
• Chapter 6: The Socialist and Communist Influences:
  • Political Strategies of Black Nationalism
  • Background to Proletarian Parties
  • Black Marxists
• Chapter 7: Black Nationalism vs the American
  • Mainstream: Liberal and Humanist Influences
  • The American Dream
  • Liberalism and Cultural Rapproachment with the Mainstream
  • The Humanist and Christian Influences
• Chapter 8: The Race-Class Equation:
  • Black Nationalism vs Other Ideologies
  • Balck Allegiance to America
  • Impact of the Floweing of Literature
  • Post-Renaissance Developments 1930-80