Though fundamentally shaped and influenced by the prevailing, male-dominated, corporate capitalist culture, Restoration was still able to pursue its own agendas and associations and forge its own identity, one that celebrated and venerated its blackness. In this way, Restoration can be seen as part of another side of the Black Power movement—beyond the dominant imagery and controversial rhetoric of its most militant exponents—that was at first shaped by, and then began to refashion, the political, social, and economic fabric of mainstream urban America.
