Race, politics, and culture : critical essays on the radicalism of the 1960's

Part I : Black political and cultural radicalism -- Ideology and politics : their status in Afro-American social theory / Alex Willingham -- Cultural nationalism in the 1960s : politics and poetry / Jennifer Jordan -- The "Black Revolution" and the reconstitution of domination / Adolph Reed, Jr. -- Part II : New left politics and counterculture -- Culture, politics, and "lifestyle" in the 1960s / David Gross -- Paths to failure : the dialectics of organization and ideology in the new left / Andrew Feenberg -- The medical committee for human rights : a case study in the self-liquidation of the new left / Rhonda Kotelchuk and Howard Levy -- Part III : Critical theory and the changing social context of activism -- The modern service state : public power in America from the New Deal to the New Beginning / Timothy W. Luke -- Rationalization and the family / Joel Kovel -- The future of capitalism / Paul Piccone -- Part IV : What's left? : an exchange This lively and provocative collection of essays on the social upheavals of the 1960s is a major contribution to our understanding of that tumultuous decade. Written by a group of former sixties activists, most of whom are now academics, it combines a unique transracial dialogue on that activism with incisive analyses of the context within which radicalism developed.