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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
by Peniel E. Joseph
Fast, easy read about various civil rights and Black power movements in the US. I knew already about many of these individuals and movements separately, but this book contextualizes them in relation to one another and events occurring across the nation and the world.
I could not help but feel, however, that the author... maybe looked somewhat unfavorably on Huey P. Newton? I found his depiction of his post-prison years as... odd and incomplete.
Eldridge Cleaver on the other hand, seemed to be given a bit more grace than he probably deserves, his pivot to the right wing scarcely a mention in the epilogue.
Similarly, there are many ideas and ideologies portrayed in the book as somehow at odds with one another, which I am also highly skeptical of.
Still, it is a very good overview. I would highly recommend reading Malcolm X's autobiography as well as the history of the BPP first however.
I could not help but feel, however, that the author... maybe looked somewhat unfavorably on Huey P. Newton? I found his depiction of his post-prison years as... odd and incomplete.
Eldridge Cleaver on the other hand, seemed to be given a bit more grace than he probably deserves, his pivot to the right wing scarcely a mention in the epilogue.
Similarly, there are many ideas and ideologies portrayed in the book as somehow at odds with one another, which I am also highly skeptical of.
Still, it is a very good overview. I would highly recommend reading Malcolm X's autobiography as well as the history of the BPP first however.