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Young, Cynthia. "Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism and the Formation of a U.S. Third World Left," American Studies, Yale University, March 1999.
“Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism and the Formation of a U.S. Third World Left” explores the form and substance of urban cultural politics during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on a group of writers, filmmakers, unionists, and grassroots organizers, this project theorizes and historicizes the relation between urban workplaces, inner city neighborhoods and the political discourses and cultural artifacts produced at and about those sites. Examining the work of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Harold Cruse, Robert Williams, Nelson Peery, Third World Newsreel, the Young Lords Party, Operation Move-In, and 1199, a union of health care workers, “Soul Power” demonstrates that a U.S. Third World Left emerged during this period, an important, and heretofore overlooked, cultural and political formation. Defined by its commitment to transnational political resistance and cultural innovation, the U.S. Third World Left crafted an anti-imperialist, anti-racist, pro-working class theory and praxis that irrevocably altered the U.S. political and cultural landscape.
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