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McIntyre & Moore Booksellers hosts Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America with Dr. Peniel E. Joseph. On Wednesday, November 7, 7:30 pm at McIntyre & Moore Booksellers, 255 Elm St. in Davis Square, Somerville, near the Red Line. Wheelchair accessible. Free and open to all; followed by book signing. Light refreshments will be served. 15% book discount on store inventory for all those attending* [*discount available for day of event only]. For information call McIntyre & Moore Booksellers (617) 629-4840 or log onto www.mcintyreandmoore.com.

"Peniel Joseph takes us beyond the simplistic and
superficial treatments of the Black Power movement
to present that movement in all its complexity,
and in its historical context.
It is a dramatic story, carefully researched, and
deserving of our attention."
(Howard Zinn)

In his Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, author-historian-activist Peniel E. Joseph introduces a cast of historical characters that includes William Worthy (the globe-trotting foreign correspondent), Albert Cleage (the radical clergyman from Detroit), James Baldwin (the novelist whose essays came to distill the very essence of American racial life), and Malcolm X (the common denominator who united black radicals from far-flung corners of the nation – and, over time, the world).

On virtually every single page, Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour uncovers buried intimacies of the larger postwar freedom struggle. It is a history of the storied group of men and women who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality. This is the story of Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton who turned their backs on Martin Luther King Jr.’s pacifism and pioneered a radical new approach to the fight for equality.

Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour, which has just been released in paperback, covers the tumultuous years 1955-1975 and is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Black Power Movement. Drawing on original archival research and extensive oral histories, including dozens of new interviews, Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour vividly reveals the way in which Black Power redefined black identity and culture and in the process redrew the landscape of American race relations.

Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour was: a Washington Post Book World Best Nonfiction of 2006 Pick; a Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Award sponsored by Columbia and Harvard University; and a New York Amsterdam News Best Book of the Year. In addition Joseph has made well received media appearances on nationally syndicated television programs such as PBS' Tavis Smiley, as well as local radio and XFM Sattellite Programs such as "The Bob Edwards Show." In 2006 and 2007 he was a featured panelist at the Harlem Book Fair panels that were broadcast on C-SPAN.

“Joseph’s ambitious new study is the most visible example of an explosion of literature on black power and black self-defense during the civil rights era.
Challenging received wisdom and, especially, traditional civil rights periodization, Joseph presents the fullest treatment to date of the black power movement.” (Virginia Quarterly Review)

Peniel E. Joseph teaches in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University. The recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Ford Foundation, his work has appeared in Souls, New Formations, and The Black Scholar, and he is editor of the recently published anthology entitled The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era. Joseph is currently working on his next two major research projects. A World of Our Own: Black Intellectuals and the Pan-African Dream is an ambitious intellectual history of the impact of Pan-Africanism on black activism during the twentieth century, while Any Day Now: African American Historical Criticism analyzes postwar African American history through a series of essays that focuses on the interaction between iconic and unglamorous figures within postwar black freedom struggles. Both projects attest to the wide scope of Joseph’s historical research, a range that he attributes to the depth of African American history. “The discipline,” he says, “is as vast as your imagination allows it to be.”

The recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, Joseph is a frequent commentator and public intellectual on race, democracy, and civil rights issues and his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Chronicle Review, and Washington Post. Most recently he has been named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network and an Emerging Scholar for 2007 by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Joseph is new to the Boston-area and can be reached online at www.penielejoseph.com.

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