The Maroon Within Us

The Maroons within in us: Selected Essays on Afrikan American Community Socialization.

Written to provide strategies for the collective development of Black people, Hilliard’s fifteen essays address issues essential for socialization, self-determination, and cultural identity.

Within the context of “community socialization,” Hilliard examines the economic, educational, spiritual, and political aspects of the African American reality, Hilliard’s insight is fresh and ripe with solutions to many of the problems that affect Black people in America.

255 pages

First published March 1995