Black Power activism erased national boundaries as its strategies and tactics proved adaptable in a variety of circumstances. Black Power became global, part of narratives of commerce, migration, imperialism, and cultural exchange. It was an international movement that, in voicing common elements within the experiences of African and African-descended diaspora peoples, provided a framework that helped define their grievances and goals. Additionally, it supplied a vocabulary, though spatially and culturally removed from the conditions of African diaspora life, and engaged in struggles with different objectives, found meaning in the interpretations conceived through Black Power’s set of values and practices. Black Power’s legacy is the ongoing history of the worldwide determination to contest all forms of domination and injustice.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Books
Black Power Beyond Borders by Call Number: Sc E 13-50ISBN: 9781137285058Publication Date: 2012-11-28
Destroy this temple; the voice of Black power in Britain by Call Number: Sc 323.2-EPublication Date: 1971
African culture : Algiers symposium, July 21st- August 1st, 1969 by Call Number: Sc F 88-80Publication Date: Alger : Société nationale d'édition et de diffusion 1969.
Black Power in the Caribbean by Call Number: Sc E 14-906ISBN: 9780813049090Publication Date: 2014-03-18
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The Pan-African Festival of Algiers by William Klein
The First Pan-African Cultural Festival took place in Algiers in July 1969 and gave rise to a collective film directed by William Klein. This film takes the form of an essay which gives coherence to a huge range of visual materials: posters, photographs, drawings, archive footage of African anti-colonial struggles as well as sequences taken from the 1969 festival, such as interviews, rehearsals, concerts and speeches.
—Olivier Hadouchi, ‘African culture will be revolutionary or will not be’: William Klein's Film of the First Pan-African Festival of Algiers (1969), Third Text Vol. 25, Issue 1, January 2011
