Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit
Say Burgin, "Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit"
English | ISBN: 1479814148 | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 16 MB
English | ISBN: 1479814148 | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 16 MB
The fascinating history of white solidarity with the Black Power movement
In the mid-1960s, as the politics of Black self-determination gained steam, Black activists had a new message for white activists: Go into your own communities and organize white people against racism. While much of the media at the time and many historians since have regarded this directive as a “white purge” from the Black freedom movement, Say Burgin argues that it heralded a new strategy, racially parallel organizing, which people experimented with all over the country. Organizing Your Own shows that the Black freedom movement never experienced a “white purge,” and it offers a new way of understanding Black Power’s relationship to white America.
By focusing on Detroit from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s, this volume illuminates a wide cross-section of white activists who took direction from Black-led groups like the Northern Student Movement, the City-Wide Citizens Action Committee, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
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