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Book

Organizing your own : the White fight for Black Power in Detroit

Call Numbers

  • 305.8 B956 (CEN, OSH)
  • H 305.8 B956 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : New York University Press, [2024]

Physical Description

x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Summary

"The untold story of how white activists in Detroit heeded Black Power's call for them to organize against racism in white communities"--

Contents

  • Re-Thinking Black Power's Relationship to White People
  • "To begin to work in their own communities" : Creating the Strategy of Racially Parallel Organizing
  • "Disorient Whites from their assumptions about race" : People Against Racism
  • "New White Consciousness" : The Detroit Industrial Mission
  • "We were trained to be like body cameras" : The Ad-Hoc Action Group
  • "It's the struggle of little people everywhere" : The Motor City Labor League
  • The Racially Parallel Organizing Mandate and Black Power's Legacy.

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