{"product_id":"organizing-your-own-the-white-fight-for-black-power-in-detroit-9781479814145","title":"Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fascinating history of white solidarity with the Black Power movement\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the mid-1960s, as the politics of Black self-determination gained steam, Black activists had a new message for white activists: Go into your own communities and organize white people against racism. While much of the media at the time and many historians since have regarded this directive as a \"white purge\" from the Black freedom movement, Say Burgin argues that it heralded a new strategy, racially parallel organizing, which people experimented with all over the country. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the Black freedom movement never experienced a \"white purge,\" and it offers a new way of understanding Black Power's relationship to white America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy focusing on Detroit from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s, this volume illuminates a wide cross-section of white activists who took direction from Black-led groups like the Northern Student Movement, the City-Wide Citizens Action Committee, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e draws on numerous oral histories and heretofore unseen archives to show that these white activists mobilized support for Black self-determination in education, policing, employment, and labor unions. It was a trial-and-error effort that pushed white activists to grapple with tough questions - which white people should they organize and how, which Black-led groups should they take direction from, and when did taking Black direction become mere sycophancy. The story of Detroit's white fight for Black Power thus not only reveals a broader, richer movement, but it carries great insight into questions that remain relevant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSay Burgin \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Dickinson College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510022934802,"sku":"9781479814145","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4d622806-5e6a-4ebe-8069-d02ca53785ab.jpg?v=1730914217","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/organizing-your-own-the-white-fight-for-black-power-in-detroit-9781479814145","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}