"But this does not lessen the responsibility of scholars to be exacting, especially when they self-consciously pursue their studies in order to advance social change, as the progressive revisionists of black power do. The art of social transformation is demanding. Those who portray the past for instruction and inspiration must not shrink before its imperatives, lest today’s activists learn the wrong lessons."
Randall L. Kennedy in the Boston Review criticizes recent books about Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and the Black Panthers.
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