From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline

by Fabio Rojas

Book Overview

The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential political force, this movement in turn spawned the academic discipline known as Black Studies. Today there are more than a hundred Black Studies degree programs in the United States, many of them located in America's elite research institutions. In From Black Power to Black Studies, Fabio Rojas explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886198
• ISBN13: 9780801886195
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"