Category: Black Power Movement

In the year 1887, the year of Marcus Mosiah Garveys birth, many living knew enslavement. Emancipation occurred in 1834, and even though the more severe features for the formerly enslaved were no longer present many persisted. There was rampant poverty. Many formerly enslaved and their descents worked on plantations. Immigrants came, mostly from India, but…

What is Pan Africanism and how does Marcus Garvey and his contribution to Pan Africanism Pan Africanism is the principle or advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa. Pan-Africanism served as both a cultural and political ideology for the solidarity of peoples of African descent. Most notably championed and pioneered…

The boom period of exploitation in the USA brought forward probably the most criticised yet progressive wing of the exploitation genre, Blaxploitation, it was an ethnic subgenre born out of the black power movement, with 1971s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song being one of the first films which portrayed a strong ideology of black power allowing…

The twelve pieces that I will talk about is all connected to the reading and videos that we have done for the weekly assignment. It will describe how each of the stories intersect the pieces that I have chosen which is basically the similarity of them. Some of the pieces could be from the online…

The phrase blaxploitation already implies the medium was used by Hollywood to exploit blackness, or black bodies, through stereotypical characterization and glorification of violence in these films (although few characters were depicted as heroes). The films Shaft and Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song, is credited for the invention of the genre, but its inception began further…

Primary Sources are sources that come straight from the person who has had direct contact with a person or a thing. When gathering facts about history and many other topics, primary sources are vital. Black Power was a movement in the nineteen-sixties and seventies that were supporting rights and political power for African American people…

Synopsis: The history of postwar Oakland is often reduced to a tale of inevitable urban decline or black political radicalisminterpretations that parallel national narratives but neglect many of the unique complexities of Oakland. Robert Self expands beyond this conventional view by demonstrating how the political culture and urban space of Oakland were strategically impacted by…