What Critics of Black “Respectability Politics” Miss. Black Power Beyond “The Boundaries of Blackness”

Send us Fan Mail In the 90s and 2000s, a wave of academic texts emerged that challenge the dominate narrative of Black leadership and politics, claiming that the location of Black power in the Black church and “respectable” civil rights organizations limited Black politics. One of the most prominent of these texts is The Boundaries of Blackness, written by Cathy Cohen, which uses the example of…