Judith Bernstein’s allusion to Black Power
Illustrated is an invitation to feminist artist Judith Bernstein’s new exhibition of work not seen since 1973. Her work was famously censored by the Philadelphia Museum of Art because it was seen as incendiary and a representation of black (phallic) power.
What follows is an index to blogs dealing with source materials that demonstrate the upper-class enabling of the black power movement, thus co-opting the integrationist civil rights movement. It is worth noting that when Ralph Bunche was on the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, he suggested a pilot program that would begin to break up urban ghettoes by gradually integrating them into small towns and cities. If memory serves (I refer to Sir Brian Urquhart’s biography), the Rockefeller Foundation did nothing and Bunche resigned.
It is also important that the Bunche Center at UCLA has predictably become an advocate of separatism, with Charles Henry, UC Berkeley professor and keynote speaker at the conference I participated in (2004), insisting that Bunche had converted to black power at the end of his life. There is no evidence for that in Bunche’s papers: quite the contrary. Was he angry at the slow pace of progress? Yes. Did he renounce integrationism? No. Would he approved of the term “African American”? No way: he was a proud American who believed that blacks had helped build this country and wanted no other label than that of “American.” His biographer understood this and subtitled his life of Bunche with this: “An American Life.”
https://clarespark.com/2009/08/13/my-life-at-pacifica-radio-a-memoir-part-one/
https://clarespark.com/2011/03/26/race-class-and-gender/
https://clarespark.com/2011/02/11/undoing-multiculturalism/
https://clarespark.com/2009/09/26/nea-neh-and-cultural-freedom-not/
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/05/arne-duncans-statism-part-one/.
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/05/arne-duncans-statism-part-two/
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/09/conflict-resolution-ralph-bunches-nobel-prize-3/.
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/10/ralph-bunche-and-the-jewish-problem/.
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/19/finians-rainbow-washes-out-red/.
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/22/identity-and-race/
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/26/answer-to-a-comment-from-a-pacifica-producer/
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/31/the-offing-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-ralph-bunche/
https://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/
https://clarespark.com/2010/07/04/pacifica-radio-and-the-progressive-movement/.
https://clarespark.com/2010/07/18/white-elite-enabling-of-black-power/
https://clarespark.com/2011/05/12/the-great-common-goes-to-the-white-house/
https://clarespark.com/2012/12/01/petit-bourgeois-radicalism-and-obama/
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[…] This blog is about the double bind white liberal writers are trapped in, given the particular history of race relations in the US. Should they rescue the black population from bigotry (e.g., Huckleberry Finn, Intruder In The Dust, affirmative action/multiculturalism/whiteness studies) or is it up to blacks to save themselves (e.g., the Black Power movement “by any means necessary”)? (For my blogs on the black power movement see https://clarespark.com/2010/07/15/index-to-black-power-blogs/) […]
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