| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii, 258 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-7957-4.)

At last, a much-needed book on the black power movement. Much of what has been published on this important movement was done long before the movement ended. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar builds on yet goes beyond William L. Van Deburg's work New Day in Babylon (1992) by going beyond the cultural dimensions of the movement and highlighting its political ramifications. This is not say that the cultural aspect of the movement was given short shrift by Ogbar. Indeed, he does a fine job teasing out the cultural remnants that were left over from the 1960s. He also does an excellent job of locating the black power movement within the American body politic. And he does a wonderful job of setting the stage for the black power movement, going as far back as the 1930s as a way of putting black radicalism into its proper context. He astutely brings to the forefront, in eloquent prose, those individuals that most black powerites saw as the intellectual mentors of the movement. Equally important, he does well in demonstrating the impact that the black power movement had on other activists of color. Ogbar clearly shows how the black power movement influenced the infrastructure, objectives, goals, and strategies of the Chicano movement, the American Indian movement, and a host of others.

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