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account of the black power movement. James Forman, The Making of Black

Revolutionaries(1972), recounts his evolution from integrationist to black

nationalist. Komozi Woodard, A Nation within a Nation(1999), is a good

biography of Amiri Baraka and the black arts movement. Martin Luther

King’s critique of black power is advanced in Where Do We Go from Here:

Chaos or Community?(1967).

Riots

Thomas Sugrue analyzes Detroit to understand The Origins of the Urban

Crisis(1996). Robert Conot, Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness(1968), and

Gerald Horne, The Watts Uprising and the 1960s(1995), examine the

bloody Los Angeles riot. Joe Feagin and Harlan Hahn, Ghetto Revolts

(1973), and Robert Fogelson, Violence as Protest(1971), are the better treat-

ments of race riots in the 1960s. The federal government’s study, The Report

of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Unrest(1968), probes ghetto

life and the bloody race riots of the 1960s.

Today

Andrew Hacker, Two Nations(1992), and Jonathan Coleman, Long Way

to Go(1997) see little progress since the Kerner Report. Orlando Patterson,

The Ordeal of Integration(1997), offers solutions to the paradox of racial

integration. In The Declining Significance of Race (1980), The Truly

Disadvantaged(1987), and When Work Disappears(1997), William Julius

Wilson sees structural economic factors as principally responsible for black

poverty. Cornel West, Race Matters(1993), addresses several timely topics.

Randall Kenan, Walking on Water(1999), astutely examines black life at the

turn of the twenty-first century.

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