Paper 24 reading list

e. Black Power
Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (2003)
Scot Brown, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism
(2003)
Simon Hall, “On the Tail of the Panther: Black Power and the 1967 Convention of the National
Conference for New Politics,” Journal of American Studies (2003)
——, “The NAACP, Black Power, and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1966-1969,” The
Historian (2007)
Gerald C. Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (1995)
Charles E. Jones, ed., The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered) (1998)
Peniel E. Joseph, Waiting ‘til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (2006)
——, ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era (2006)
Daniel Matlin, “‘Lift Up Yr Self!’ Reinterpreting Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Black Power, and the
Uplift Tradition,” JAH (2006)
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (2004)
Robert O. Self, “‘To Plan Our Liberation’: Black Power and the Politics of Place in Oakland, California,
1965-1977,” Journal of Urban History (2000)
Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, eds., Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggle Outside the
South, 1940-1980 (2003)
——, eds., Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America (2005)
Timothy B. Tyson, Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (1999)
William L. Van Deburg, New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-
1975 (1993)
26. DOMESTIC POLITICS, 1961-81
Activist presidential leadership and federal government growth, the ideas behind the War on Poverty, the
explosion of federal programmes, how far did those programmes succeed or did they exacerbate poverty
Domestic disorder and the divisions in the liberal coalition. The growth of the Imperial Presidency and the
crisis of Watergate. The ordeal and beginnings of decline of liberalism, and the conservative
counterrevolution.
a. General
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