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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Biography [Browse]
• Black Muslims—Biography [Browse]
• X, Malcolm 1925-1965—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Summary note

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-1960's which, on one hand gave form to Malcolm

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Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

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 INTERNATIONAL 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

ISBN

3-95489-705-9

OCLC

871779743

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