"Black power decisively broke, sometimes in problematic ways, the lock on national definitions of AMERICA and AMERICAN that had been held for centuries by wealthy, academically and socially privileged white males. The possibilities of a new and structurally significan visibility became an empowering model for initiatives by women, gay and lesbian, Chicano and Chicana, Puerto Rican, Native American and other groups in the United States. All followed Black Power's lead into a radicap politics of visibility, as that politics has already been defined"- Houston A. baker, Jr., "Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere"