In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism. Unique in his belief that the destiny of African Americans could not be separated from that of oppressed people the world over, Carmichael's Black Power principles insisted that blacks resist white brainwashing and redefine themselves. He was concerned not only with racism and exploitation, but with cultural integrity and the colonization of Africans in America. In these essays on racism, Black Power, the pitfalls of conventional liberalism, and solidarity with the oppressed masses and freedom fighters of all races and creeds, Carmichael addresses questions that still confront the black world and points to a need for an ideology of black and African liberation, unification, and transformation.

在本书收集的演讲和文章中，黑人活动家、组织者和自由斗士斯托克利-卡迈克尔追溯了他自己和美国黑人在民权、黑人权力和泛非主义运动发展过程中发生的巨大变化。卡迈克尔认为非裔美国人的命运不能与全世界被压迫者的命运分开，他的黑色力量原则坚持要求黑人抵制白人的洗脑，重新定义自己。他不仅关注种族主义和剥削，还关注文化完整性和非洲人在美国的殖民化。在这些关于种族主义、黑色力量、传统自由主义的陷阱以及声援所有种族和信仰的被压迫群众和自由战士的文章中，卡迈克尔谈到了黑人世界仍然面临的问题，并指出需要一种黑人和非洲解放、统一和变革的意识形态。