Black Power

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Richard Wright's book Black Power (1954), describing his travels to the Gold Coast and the rise of Pan-Africanism. In a US context later popularized by Stokely Carmichael.

Noun

Black Power (uncountable)

  1. A slogan and movement supporting Black self-determination and sometimes separatism, especially in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
    Coordinate term: Red Power
    • 1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:
      Meanwhile, Black Power groups such as SNCC and the Black Panthers were voicing support for the Arabs against Israel. This sometimes looked like a mere matter of black nationalism; after all, Egypt was a part of Africa, and black nationalist literature sometimes seemed to identify the Arabs as blacks fighting the white Israelis.
    • 1975, Fela Kuti (lyrics and music), “Water No Get Enemy”, in Expensive Shit:
      I dey talk of Black power, I say (Water, him no get enemy!)
    • 2006 June 19, Peniel E. Joseph, “Black Power's Quiet Side”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Black Power” quickly became the controversial slogan for a movement that was largely perceived as rejecting the civil rights movement's nonviolent tactics and goals of integration in favor of a new ethos of black identity, self-defense and separatism.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Black Power.

Noun

Black Power

  1. Black Power
    Synonym: (less common) svart makt
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