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Peniel Joseph: Stokely – A Life

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Harvard Book Store and the Hutchins Center are pleased to welcome award-winning author and Tufts University history professor Peniel Joseph for a discussion of his latest book, Stokely: A Life.

Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for “Black Power” during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black Power movements, Carmichael would stand for the rest of his life at the center of the storm he had unleashed that night. In Stokely, preeminent civil rights scholar Peniel E. Joseph presents a groundbreaking biography of Carmichael, using his life as a prism through which to view the transformative African American freedom struggles of the twentieth century.

During the heroic early years of the civil rights movement, Carmichael and other civil rights activists advocated nonviolent measures, leading sit-ins, demonstrations, and voter registration efforts in the South that culminated with the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Still, Carmichael chafed at the slow progress of the civil rights movement and responded with Black Power, a movement that urged blacks to turn the rhetoric of freedom into a reality through whatever means necessary. Marked by the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., a wave of urban race riots, and the rise of the anti-war movement, the late 1960s heralded a dramatic shift in the tone of civil rights. Carmichael became the revolutionary icon for this new racial and political landscape, helping to organize the original Black Panther Party in Alabama and joining the iconic Black Panther Party for Self Defense that would galvanize frustrated African Americans and ignite a backlash among white Americans and the mainstream media. Yet at the age of twenty-seven, Carmichael made the abrupt decision to leave the United States, embracing a pan-African ideology and adopting the name of Kwame Ture, a move that baffled his supporters and made him something of an enigma until his death in 1998.

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MeKrlULoser says:

Perineum Joseph is filth. Hundreds of pages and doesn't mention, not once, Toure's autobiography and body of work? Friggin hatchet job. Don't trust any of these Harvard blavitys.

sadatkb says:

He's Haitian so I don't understand what this has to do with his personal history . Spending time study another ethnic groups heroes how does any of this help Haiti.

umifam says:

The person in this thread who attempts to define socialism – you need to study economics much closer than you have.  Capitalism has never created wealth.  Capitalism is built on slavery and colonialism.  That isn't creating weath, that's exploiting oppressed people to dominate the existing wealth that belongs to those exploited people.  You provide no definition of socialism which confirms you probably have no idea what it is.  Capitalism is the reason Africa is poor today so it cannot be the solution in any form.  The wealth is there already in terms of bauxite, diamonds, gold, uranium, oil, rubber.  What's needed is a collective economic system – socialism – to manage that wealth in a way that benefits the people and not private corporate interests.

Raynayk says:

Milquetoast analysis… not wrong but timid. Kwame Ture is all over Youtube. Listen to him yourself.

CrowdPleeza says:

I think Stokely and other pan-African revolutionaries made a mistake embracing socialist dominate economics. That type of socialism is bad economics. What's needed are mixed economies with some degree of capitalism and socialism. That's the formula that most developed countries follow in some form including the U.S.

Reggie Prim says:

Dr. Joseph's encyclopedic knowledge of his subject and the broader history of the civil rights period shines through in this reading/lecture. Plus dude looks good in a suit.

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