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> What happened to the revolutionary goals of the Black Power
> movement?
>
> REVOLUTIONARIES TO RACE LEADERS: Black Power and the
> Making of African American Politics
> Cedric Johnson
> University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2007
> ISBN 978-0-8166-4477-3 | hardcover | $60.00
> ISBN 978-0-8166-4478-0 | paperback | $20.00
>
> Exploring the major political and intellectual currents from the Black
> Power era to the present, Cedric Johnson reveals how black political
> life conformed to liberal democratic capitalism and how the
> movement™s most radical aims were eclipsed by more moderate
> aspirations. Documenting the historical retreat from democratic
> struggle, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders ultimately calls for the
> renewal of popular resistance and class-conscious politics.
>
> For more information, including the table of contents, visit the
> book™s
> webpage:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/J/johnson_revolutionaries.html
>