Young Cynthia A. Young

Soul Power (eBook, PDF)

Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left

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Produktbeschreibung

Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls "e;U.S. Third World Leftists,"e; activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the "e;long 1960s."e; Nearly thirty countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America declared formal independence in the 1960s alone. Arguing that the significance of this wave of decolonization to U.S. activists has been vastly underestimated, Young describes how literature, films, ideologies, and political movements that originated in the Third World were absorbed by U.S. activists of color. She shows how these transnational influences were then used to forge alliances, create new vocabularies and aesthetic forms, and describe race, class, and gender oppression in the United States in compelling terms.Young analyzes a range of U.S. figures and organizations, examining how each deployed Third World discourse toward various cultural and political ends. She considers a trip that LeRoi Jones, Harold Cruse, and Robert F. Williams made to Cuba in 1960; traces key intellectual influences on Angela Y. Davis's writing; and reveals the early history of the hospital workers' 1199 union as a model of U.S. Third World activism. She investigates Newsreel, a late 1960s activist documentary film movement, and its successor, Third World Newsreel, which produced a seminal 1972 film on the Attica prison rebellion. She also considers the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American artists who made films about conditions in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. By demonstrating the breadth, vitality, and legacy of the work of U.S. Third World Leftists, Soul Power firmly establishes their crucial place in the history of twentieth-century American struggles for social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822388616
• Artikelnr.: 54930756

Autorenporträt

Cynthia A. Young is Associate Professor of English and the Director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Boston College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Havana Up in Harlem and Down in Monroe: Armed Revolt and the Making of a
Cultural Revolution 18
2. Union Power, Soul Power: Class Struggle by Cultural Means 54
3. Newsreel: Rethinking the Filmmaking Arm of the New Left 100
4. Third World Newsreel Visualizes the Internal Colony 145
5. Angela Y. Davis and U.S. Third World Left Theory and Praxis 184
6. Shot in Watts: Film and State Violence in the 1970s 209
Coda 245
Notes 253
Bibliography and Filmography 271
Index 295