| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties. By James C. Hall. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii, 283 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509609-6.)

James C. Hall invites us to revise our thinking about the 1960s in this thoughtful and generative study of the extraordinary efflorescence of poetry, fiction, autobiography, music, and painting that emerged out of that decade's African American freedom movement. Challenging retrospective judgments about the Black Power and black arts movements as narrow and particularistic, as racialist and essentialist, as separatist and even perhaps racially supremacist, Hall argues that black cultural workers in the 1960s saw themselves as critics of an immoral and unjust social order that injured all humans, that privileged scientific progress and economic growth over concern for human intersubjectivity and happiness. . . .

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