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Want to Start a Revolution?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Want to Start a Revolution?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-12
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton. With few exceptions, black women have been perceived as supporting actresses; as behind-the-scenes or peripheral activists, or rank and file party members. But what about Vicki Garvin, a Brooklyn-born activist who became a leader of the National Negro Labor Council and guide to Malcolm X on his travels through Africa? What about Shirley Chisholm, the first black Congresswoman? From Rosa Parks and Esther Cooper Jackson, to Shirley Graham DuBois and Assata Shakur, a host of women demonstrated a lifelong commitment to radical change,...

The Anticolonial Front
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

The Anticolonial Front

This book connects the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe.

Work and Community Among West African Migrant Workers Since the Nineteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Work and Community Among West African Migrant Workers Since the Nineteenth Century

"This book will be of interest to academic and general readers concerned with social and economic history, African history, Black studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Commonwealth and imperial history."--BOOK JACKET.

Race Woman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Race Woman

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

"A fascinating account of the extraordinary life of W. E. B. Du Bois's widow: a complex, creative woman who lived a colorful, meaningful life." (Essence) "Horne is the first biographer to grant Shirley Graham Du Bois her due." (Boston Globe)

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1834

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1959
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Left of Karl Marx
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Left of Karl Marx

Assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915&–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual active in the U.S. and U.K.

Red Activists and Black Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

Red Activists and Black Freedom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940's and early 1950's. This approach needs serious re-thinking in light of what took place in the later 1930's with the organization and activity of groups like the Southern Negro Youth Congress that brought both African-American and white workers and students together in the fight for economic and social justice. Thanks to the post-World War II Red Scare such groups as well as Left African-American leaders like Esther and James Jackson have been overlooked or excised from an exciting, controversial, and important story. With all due credit to the churches which played such a pivotal role in finally winning Blacks their civil rights, the early history involving the Left, workers of both races, and the labor unions must be assimilated into America's memory, for there were important continuities between what they did and the later church-based struggle. This book was published as a special issue of American Communist History.

After the Rebellion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

After the Rebellion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad view of black youth and social movement activism.Based on both research from a diverse collection of archives and interviews with youth activists, advocates, and grassroots organizers, this book examines popular mobilization among the generation of activists - principally black students, youth, and young adults - who came of age after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act ...

Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America explores nineteenth-century poetry as it addresses and engages in the major concerns of American cultural life. Focusing on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, this book reveals how these issues contended and negotiated with each other in the shaping of a pluralist democratic polity. Nineteenth-century American poetry, far from being the self-reflective art object of twentieth-century aesthetic theory, offered a rhetorical arena in which civic, economic, and religious trends intersected with each other in mutual definition and investigation. With a deft hand, Shira Wolosky demonstrates the ways in which poetry was a core impulse in the formation of American identity and cultural definition.

A Tale of Two Plantations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 553

A Tale of Two Plantations

Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.