WAITING TILL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR.

Waiting Till the Midnight Hour



Waiting Till the Midnight Hour

An Overview of” What Black Power is?”

Researchers attract times of crisis and social upheaval, as these periods are especially productive for new ideas. The crisis, which we consider is a specific: in the U.S. economy, he was accompanied by stagnation and growth. At the same time, of course, we can speak about social and cultural crisis of American society: in the 1950's - early 1960's. there have been significant cultural shifts that have changed and the black and white communities.

African-Americans - a group not fused in social and cultural relations with the white American community. As is known, the bulk of African-Americans belonged to a black who tried to enter into official culture (be, for example, "black gentlemen"), more negative than to the actual white culture. Leroy Jones, one of the brightest African-American ideologues, for example, considered members of the Ku Klux Klan's most honest white.

Cultural and racial ideas like the ideas of Negritude, existed among African-Americans since the beginning of the twentieth century. But never reached such a scale and impact on mass consciousness, as the ideology of the movement "Black Power". Necessary to make an explanation about the term. In Soviet historiography rooted translation "Black Power", although he does not fully reflect all the possible values ??of this phrase. The word power has several meanings. In addition to the general meaning of "power", this word has values ??such as "power" and "power", and often themselves leaders of the various currents to study the motion put to the phrase "black power" mean different things. This should be considered when studying this phenomenon.

The term black power There is already nearly forty years, and its claimed invention are unlike each other people, like Congressman AK Powell and ...