Stokely Carmichael
Inventor of the Black Power slogan and concept

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My Reading List

For those of you who are interested in deepening their knowledge of the issues approached in this blog I provide a list of readings and other materials that have been useful to me.

This list will be updated continuously.

Should you require further information or have any suggestions feel free to contact me at mail(at)stokely-carmichael.com

Books & Articles:

• ANDERSON, Terry H., The Movement and the Sixties, Oxford University Press, New   York, 1995.
• BENNETT JR., Lerone, “Stokely Carmichael: Architect of Black Power”, in Ebony, September 1966.
• BERGAMINI, Oliviero, Storia degli Stati Uniti, Laterza, Bari, 2006.
• BERTELLA FARNETTI, Paolo, Pantere Nere. Storia e mito del Black Panther Party, Shake Edizioni Underground, Milano, 2006.
• BROWN, H. Rap, Die Nigger Die!, Random House, New York, 1969.
• BURGESS, Parke G., “The Rhetoric of Black Power: A Moral Demand?”, in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, April 1968.
• CARMICHAEL, Stokely, Hamilton, Charles V., Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, Vintage Books, New York, 1967.
• CARMICHAEL, Stokely, THELWELL, Ekwueme Michael, Ready for Revolution:The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Scribner, New York, 2005.
• CARMICHAEL, Stokely, Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism, Random House, New York, 1971.
• CARMICHAEL, Stokely, “What we Want”, in New York Review of Books, 1966.
• CARTOSIO, Bruno, Senza illusioni. I neri negli Stati Uniti dagli anni Sessanta alla rivolta di Los Angeles, Shake Edizioni Underground, Milano, 1995.
• Carson, Clayborne In Struggle. SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1981.
• CHAFE, William H., The unfinished Journey – America since World War 2, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003.
• COBB, Charlie, “From Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture”, in Africa News Service, October 21, 2000.
• DANZIG, David, “In Defense of ‘Black Power’”, in Commentary, September 1966.
• DE WITT, Karen, “Formerly Stokely Carmichael and Still Ready for the Revolution”, in The New York Times, April 14, 1996.
• DETWEILER, Bruce, “A Time to be Black”, in New Republic, September 17, 1966.
• Gallagher, Victoria J. “Black Power in Berkeley: Postmodern Constructions in the Rhetoric of Stokely Carmichael”, in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, May, 2001.
• GIAMMANCO, Roberto, Black Power. Potere Negro, Laterza, Bari, 1967.
• HAMBY, Alfonzo L., Liberalism and Its Challengers – From F.D.R to Bush, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992.
• HARE, Nathan, “The Case for Separatism. ‘Black Perspective’”, in Newsweek, February 10, 1969.
• HOFSTADTER, Richard, The American Political Tradition, Random House, New York, 1973.
• JONES, Maldwyn A., Storia degli Stati Uniti, Bompiani, Milano, 1994.
• KAUFMAN, Michael T., “Stokely Carmichael, Rights Leader who coined ‘Black Power’, dies at 57″, in The New York Times, November 16, 1998.
• KELLY, Norman, “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, in The Nation, December 8, 2003.
• LAWSON, Steven F., Running for Freedom, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991.
• MACK, Raymond W., “The Negro Opposition to Black Extremism”, in Saturday Review, May 4, 1968.
• McCORMICK, Thomas J., America’s Half Century – United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1995.
• MILLSPAUGH, Frank, “Black Power”, in Commonweal, August 5, 1966.
• MOORE, Carl, “A course in the rhetoric of Black Power”, in Journal of Black Studies, June, 1972.
• Mueller, Juergen Die Geschichte des Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Metzler, Stuttgart, 1977.
• PARKS, Gordon, “Whip of Black Power”, in Life, May 19, 1967.
• ROBERTS, Gene, “The Story of Snick: From ‘Freedom high’ to ‘Black Power’”, in New York Times Magazine, September 25, 1966.
• RUSTIN, Bayard, “‘Black Power’ and Coalition Politics”, in Commentary, September, 1966.
• SCOTT, Robert L., Brockriede Wayne, The Rhetoric of Black Power, Harper &   Row, New York, 1969.
• STEWART, Charles J., “The Evolution of a Revolution: Stokely Carmichael and the Rhetoric of Black Power”, in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Nr. 83, 1997.
• TOWNS, W. Stuart, “We Want Our Freedom”:  Rhetoric of the Civil Right Movement“, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2002.
• WARREN, Robert Penn, “Two for SNCC”, in Commentary, April, 1965.
• WEINRAUB, Bernard, “The Brilliancy of Black”, in Esquire, January, 1967.
• WILLIAMS, William A., Americans in a changing world: a history of the United States in the twentieth century, Harper & Row, New York, 1978.
• ZINN, Howard, Storia del popolo americano: dal 1492 ad oggi, Il saggiatore, Milano, 2005.

Videos & Clips:

• “Black Power – White backlash”. From the Archives: CBS News took a glance at the Civil Rights movement on a program that originally aired on September 27, 1966.