Analysis: Raise Your Fist And Salute To Black Power

Marquan Boyd
Professor McBride
AFAM 110
2 May 2018

Raise Your Fist and Salute to Black Power
October 5, 2016 a group of black students goes to a Penn State Women’s Volleyball game. While at the game, during the national anthem, every black student stood and raise their fist. What was significant about the fist being raised is it symbolized “black power”. Black Power was a term introduced by former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader Stokely Carmichael at a rally in Mississippi. His intent was to “end American imperialism”. However, even Carmichael himself could not have predicted what ensued after that. The Black Power Movement started to take off and many radical groups started to become.
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He breaks down the social reforms into six different social movements that has happened from the Revolutionary War to the ending of the Black Party Movement. The six social movements were abolitionism, southern populism, progressivism, women’s suffrage, organized labor, and socialism. In order to prove the relationship that racism had on the social movement, Allen uses several different techniques. The first strategy he uses is implicit bias by only doing a case study that involved blacks. He does this because he is trying to prove his claim that blacks were the only ones to fight for social equality. By doing that he excludes other information and white people that were just as important as black

In particular, when he states, "The dominant trend in organized labor at the beginning of this century was a movement toward exclusionism and racism". Knowing about the league of revolutionary black workers, black women and men had to fight against discrimination in the workplace, so that generalization he made was correct. Overall, he does a good job of using facts, studies, and giving details to his claims such as how white supremacy played a role in undermining all six of the social movements. This book relates to our class because the six social movements were radical in how they went about seeking