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Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (review)

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (review) repentant: " That nigger committed suicide, wanting to come into my store and four-letter-word my daughter-in-law." " That was the moment I became a historian," Tyson writes, and this book is the product of his investigation. Though engagingly written, it is perhaps a little long, and Tyson's analysis of race and politics in the larger South of the 1960s, although sound, is not altogether original (though it certainly doesn't hurt to remind us just how deeply the roots of the modern Republican party in the South lie in white racism). But, in his treatment of the Oxford events of 1970, his understanding of his own family's struggles, and the story he tells of his own search, Jack Burden-like, for truth in the blood-stained past, he has produced a highly readable and, finally, a moving narrative. ........................................................................................................................ Ready for Revolution The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) By Stokely Carmichael, with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell Scribner, 2003 835 pp. Cloth $35.00 Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield, professor of American Studies at Brandeis University and author of A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. In August 1967 the director of the fbi urged his agents to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (review)

Whitfield, Stephen J.
Southern Cultures , Volume 10 (4) – Nov 18, 2004
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repentant: " That nigger committed suicide, wanting to come into my store and four-letter-word my daughter-in-law." " That was the moment I became a historian," Tyson writes, and this book is the product of his investigation. Though engagingly written, it is perhaps a little long, and Tyson's analysis of race and politics in the larger South of the 1960s, although sound, is not altogether original (though it certainly doesn't hurt to remind us just how deeply the roots of the modern Republican party in the South lie in white racism). But, in his treatment of the Oxford events of 1970, his understanding of his own family's struggles, and the story he tells of his own search, Jack Burden-like, for truth in the blood-stained past, he has produced a highly readable and, finally, a moving narrative. ........................................................................................................................ Ready for Revolution The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) By Stokely Carmichael, with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell Scribner, 2003 835 pp. Cloth $35.00 Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield, professor of American Studies at Brandeis University and author of A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. In August 1967 the director of the fbi urged his agents to

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