Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America

Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. By Peniel E. Joseph. (New York: HoIi. 2006. xx, 399 pp. Cloth, S27.50, isbn 978-0-8050-7539-7. Paper. S 17.00. isbn 978-0-8050-8335-4.)

Recent scholarship has proffered a vision ol black power not as a racist inversion of white supremacy but as aggressive pursuit of political and economic empowerment: the twin engines ol black advancement. Penici E.Joseph's Wait' i Hg 'til the Midnight Hour, a companion to the author's edited volume The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power fra (2006), is pan of ihis movement. Like the edited volume, Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour effectively challenges traditional explanations that portray black power as a critical and lamentable break troni earlier civil rights...