Achieving BlacknessAchieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Afrocentric era of the 1980s through 1990s Austin shows how theories of race have shaped ideas about the meaning of Blackness within different time periods of the twentieth century.