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The“Two‐ness”of the Movement: James Farmer, Nonviolence, and Black Nationalism
Author(s) -
Danielson Leilah
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.0149-0508.2004.00298.x
Subject(s) - black power , civil rights , nationalism , scholarship , power (physics) , politics , movement (music) , political science , order (exchange) , social movement , sociology , gender studies , law , aesthetics , philosophy , economics , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
This essay examines the evolving racial and pacifist politics of civil rights leader James Farmer in order to challenge the tendency within civil rights scholarship to dichotomize the movement between nonviolence and violence, and between interracialism and Black Power.