No Haven: From Civil Rights to Black Power in New Haven, Connecticut

Williams, Yohuru

doi:10.1080/00064246.2001.11431157

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“…In 1969, Mintz helped found Yale’s Antilles Research Program ( Latin American Research Review , 1971: 185–187). Meanwhile, in 1970, New Haven, Connecticut, the home of Yale, was the scene of trials of Black Panthers and tens of thousands of their supporters, including many whites from the US left, who met on New Haven Green near Yale’s main gates and were supported by sympathetic Yale students and faculty (see Williams, 2008).…”

Section: The Committee On Afro-american Societies and Culturesmentioning

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‘A Conference That Didn’t’: African Diaspora Studies and an episode in anthropology’s identity politics of representation

Yelvington

2018

Critique of Anthropology

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In 1968, the Social Science Research Council of the United States established the Committee on Afro-American Societies and Cultures which lasted until 1975 and which was initially chaired by the anthropologist Sidney W Mintz. In April, 1970, the committee held a conference on ‘Continuities and Discontinuities in Afro-American Societies and Culture’ at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. The conference occurred in the context of civil rights struggles and the prominence of the Black Power movement in the United States, the near-simultaneous rise of the Black Power movement in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and elsewhere in the Caribbean, and on the heels of protests by black and African scholars and students at the African Studies Association meetings in Montreal in 1969, and similar protests at other scholarly venues. A number of prominent white Caribbeanist anthropologists and other social scientists were invited to present papers at the Social Science Research Council conference. When black academics, such as the anthropologist St Clair Drake and the sociologist Joyce A Ladner, were invited, seemingly as an afterthought, they refused to participate, citing the lack of representation of scholars of colour on the committee and in the conference program. And at the conference itself, there were subtle conflicts and misunderstandings over styles of presentation and argumentation. This article develops a theoretical model appropriate for the history of science to illustrate anthropology’s contested identity politics of representation.

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‘A Conference That Didn’t’: African Diaspora Studies and an episode in anthropology’s identity politics of representation

Yelvington

2018

Critique of Anthropology

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“…The impact of the civil rights movement on race relations and the nation's social fabric has been monumental (Williams, 2002). One of the key outcomes is the creation of self-perpetuating momentum that allowed for other movements to occur.…”

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Race and the “I Have a Dream” Legacy

Jones

2006

Journal of Black Studies

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In the study reported here, the author had two objectives: (1) to test the relationship between racial attitudes toward Blacks and attitudes toward civil rights and (2) to find predictors of positive civil rights attitudes. Using multivariate regression modeling, the author finds that there is a positive relationship between racial attitudes toward Blacks and attitudes toward civil rights. The model also suggests a positive relationship between ideological proximity, or how close one feels to Blacks, and attitudes toward civil rights. In addition, the author finds that political party identification, age, education, gender, racial identification, and region of residence are all significant predictors of positive civil rights attitudes. The final model has an explained variance of 19%, thus calling for additional research in this area.

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No Haven: From Civil Rights to Black Power in New Haven, Connecticut

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‘A Conference That Didn’t’: African Diaspora Studies and an episode in anthropology’s identity politics of representation

‘A Conference That Didn’t’: African Diaspora Studies and an episode in anthropology’s identity politics of representation

Race and the “I Have a Dream” Legacy

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