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| | Dr. doCarmo's Notes on the Black Cultural Movement |
 | | Basically, though, the fl cultural movement, as I'll call it here, was at its height in the latter half of the 1960's and on into the 1970s, though echoes of it are definitely still around today: just listen to Lauryn Hill's music, watch Spike Lee's movies, read Toni Morrison's novels, or see August Wilson's plays. |
 | | If the movement has a single central purpose, it's to make African-Americans (and, indeed, fl people the world over, if it can) totally and irreversibly proud of their racial and cultural heritage. |
 | | A second idea big in the fl cultural movement pertains to "fl nationalism," as it came to be called -- a doctrine holding that if, in fact, fl people have only generally suffered by their exposure to white society, they should form a separate society having as little as possible to do with whites. |
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