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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAfrican American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story Conforth, Bruce M. Book 2013 Story of the collection of African American folk music compiled by Lawrence Gellert. Compiled between the World Wars, the recordings were adopted by the American Left as the voice of the American prol... African-American Self-Defense: Guns and the Freedom Struggle  Miah, Malik Article 2015 A Review of "This Noviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Cvil Rights Movement Possible" by Carles E. Cobb. Jr. African-American Self-Defense Miah, Malik Article 2015 A review of Charles E. Cobb Jr.'s book, "This Non-violent Stuff'll Get You Killed" on the role of guns in the US civil rights movement of the 1960s. African-American Socialist Pioneer: Against The Current vol. 144 Lang, Clarence Article 2010 In holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America, Winston James singled out Hubert Henry Harrison for his “pioneering role in what became known as the N... African Americans and Immigrant Workers Miah, Malik Article 2018 Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the examp... African Americans' Forced Labor: Against The Current vol. 147 Thompson, Heather Ann Article 2010 As Americans we are taught that slavery was abolished after the Civil War. A close reading of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution reveals, however, that this was not exactly the... Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler Finkel, David Article 2015 Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler - two examples among many of what the racist and bureaucratic "carceral state" in America is about. The All-American Skin Game Crouch, Stanley Book 1995 Crouch firmly believes that Blacks, having catalyzed the historical struggle of Americans to realize democratic ideals, have at least as much responsibility to maintain them as other groups, and he is... American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Hedges, Chris Book 2006 Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on co... American Primitive in Red, Black and White: Race and Class in the U.S. Goldner, Loren Article 1989 The centrality of race in the formation of the American working class, its inseparability from the question of class, can be stated very succinctly: in 1848 and 1968, when working-class upsurges explo... The Anatomy of A Rebellion: Against The Current vol. 84 Ortiz, Paul Article 2000 The first time I traveled to Los Angeles with a comrade of mine in the labor movement, I had one of those sharp educational experiences that cannot be replicated in the classroom. Apartheid, Militarism and the U.S. Southeast Seidman, Ann Book 1990 This is an easy to understand economic report on the joint relation between U.S. policies in Africa and jobs, income and investment in the U. S. Southeast. Seidman examines how the daily realities of ... Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics Zamora, Daniel Article 2016 An interview with Adolph Reed, a political scientist and Bernie Sanders supporter, who dicsusses assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the tasks ahead. Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics Marable, Manning Book 1995 Marable argues for a new "transformationalist" approach in which there is an emergence of a new black cultural identity which also includes all the poor and exploited in united struggle against oppres... Black American Feminisms Website An extensive bibliography of black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines. "Black Americans for a Better Future" Super PAC 100% Funded by Rich White Guys Schwartz, John Article 2016 New FEC filings show that all of the $417,250 in monetary donations to a Super PAC called "Black Americans for a Better Future" comes from conservative white businessmen-- including $400,000, or 96 pe... Black History and the Class Struggle Serial Publication (Periodical) 2005 Articles include: "A Life in the Black Panther Party — We Want Freedom — A Review of a Book by Mumia Abu-Jamal," "How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration — For Black Libe... Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus Dickerson, Debra Article 2008 'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates. The Black Infinity Complex Bell, Shamell Article 2015 We're a group of UCLA grad students, and our vision of the Black Infinity Complex is inspired by the boundlessness and sustainability of Black creativity and imagination. It's a collective of organize... The Black Panthers Reconsidered Farber, Samuel Article 1996 To understand the Black Panther Party, we must place it in the context of the exhaustion of the Civil Rights movement by the mid-to-late sixties. The Black Panthers: Movie Review Clancy, M.J. Article 2015 With its powerful archival footage and interviews with former Black Panther Party members, Stanley Nelson’s documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution reopens a chapter of black histor... BLM: A Movement and Its Critics Miah, Malik Article 2015 Recent studies, once again, show that being Black makes life more difficult than for those with white skin. It is more difficult to get good paying jobs, education and housing (even for those with equ... "Calm Reflection" or Justice? Figueroa, Meleiza Article 2013 Afterthoughts on Justice and racism after the movie Fruitvale Station. Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era Palmer, Bryan D. Book 2008 A history of social movements of the 1960s, including Canada’s student and anti-war movements, the rise of women’s liberation, labour agitation, and Quebec’s independence movement. Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers: Memories of Mississippi 1964-65 Dann, Jim Book 2013 With a firsthand account of the details and thoughtful descriptions of key people on the front lines, author Jim Dann brings the historic period, the June 1964 civil rights struggle to register as man... Class and the African-American Leadership Crisis Miah, Malik Article 1996 This market economy can't solve the real problems of African Americans. Worse, the scapegoating of society's most vulnerable members (immigrants, people of color, women and gays) is on the rise. Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene Reed, Adolph L. Book 2001 Reed argues against the solipsistic approaches of cultural or identity politics, and in favour of class-based political interpretation and action. Class Notes moves on to tackle race relations, ethnic... Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part Two: Marxism vs. the Myth of "White Skin Privilege" Article 2015 The victory of the socialist revolution in this country will be achieved through the united struggle of black and white workers. Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part One: The Roots of Black Oppression Article 2015 The purpose of this talk is to motivate a Marxist materialist program for the fight for black freedom as opposed to the idealism embodied in both black nationalism and guilty white liberalism, includi... Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice Nembhard, Jessica Gordon Book 2014 In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice Nembhard Gordon, Jessica Unclassified 2014 Book examining efforts to achieve economic development by African Americans. Coming Home to the Struggle: Against The Current vol. 134 Thompson, Wendy Article 2008 I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my gra... Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity. The Crisis of Color and Democracy Marable, Manning Book 1992 Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions. The Dialectics of Community Control Aronowitz, Stanley Article 1970 The movement for community control will fall short often, unless it becomes a broader struggle for popular, democratic control of all public institutions and the economy. Django Unchained, or, The Help: How "Cultural Politics" Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why Reed, Adolph Jr. Article 2013 On reflection, it's possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social relations into individual quests a... Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movements: A Radical Democratic Vision Ransby, Barbara Book 2003 An insightful biography on one of the leading organizers of the American civil rights movement. Failure of a Dream?: Essays in the History of American Socialism Laslettt, John H. M.; Lipset, Seymour Martin Book 1974 Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism. For true liberation, Black Lives Matter is not enough Williams, Douglas Article 2015 A movement that held true to a goal of liberation would challenge the fundamental assumptions of social, economic, and political organization under capitalism. The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr. Goodrich, Matthew Miles Article 2018 King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism. Freedom rides: Connexipedia Article Article Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. Freedom Summer: Connexipedia Article Article A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. From Ferguson to Baltimore Hansford, Justin Article 2015 Combined with racial profiling, combined with the practice of predatory profiling and predatory policing, police departments are using parking and traffic tickets as a revenue base to increase their b... Grassroots Power, Women and Transformation: An Interview with George Friday: Against The Current vol. 85 Luce, Stephanie Article 2000 George Friday is an organizer with the Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)—a national network of organizations working to build alternatives to the two-party system. An African-American wo... A history of American lynchings Hopkina, Ruth Article 2017 A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories. Inhuman Bondage Davis, David Brion Book 2008 Looks at slavery in the American South, desribing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive slave trade, the sexual exploit... Journey of Reconciliation: Connexipedia Article Article An attempt in 1947 to challenge segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States, through non-violent direct action. Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part One): Police Terror and Black Oppression Coleman, Diana Unclassified 2015 Police reform is a hoax and a hustle. Federal investigations go nowhere and the Democrats are simply the soft cops of the capitalist system. There is no road to black liberation and the liberation of ... The Making of Jericho Road: Against The Current vol. 132 Williams, Charles Article 2008 An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008. Malcolm X Research Site Website A comprehensive website on the life and legacy of Malcolm X , with text, film, video, graphics and more, plus a large listing of African American scholars on the left, with links to their sites and wo... Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America: The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism Article 2012 The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights m... May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee Linebaugh, Peter Article 2010 Class consciousness is the knowledge that emancipation is ours. Class struggle is the fight for it, the fight to be a class, and then the fight to abolish the class system. It is not economistic; it... The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson Book 1987 Robinson recounts the origins and sustaining force of the famous boycott led by Montgomery's African American women. Moral Appeals Aren't Enough Kelley, Robin D. G. Article 2015 The wonderful thing about Black Lives Matter is that they're saying you cannot use moral suasion to win this. You've got to disrupt, and make sure that things don't work in order to make the demand fo... The Movement Has a History Abdullah, Melina Article 2015 I was born in the '70s in East Oakland. All of our parents are Panthers, or Black Power organizers, or organizers. We come out politicized. Nader, Greens and Socialists: Against The Current vol. 91 Hawkins, Howie Article 2001 Blaming Ralph Nader for Bush is like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. The Greens ran Nader to end corporate oligarchy, not to support one wing of the oligarchy as a lesser evil against the other... Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Douglass, Frederick; Jacobs, Harriet; (Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah) Book 2000 Two first-person accounts of African-American slavery. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Alexander, Michelle Book 2010 Argues that Jim Crow and legal racial segregation have been replaced by mass race-based incarceration as a system of social control. The 1960 Sit-ins in Context Oppenheimer, Marty Article 2010 The Civil Rights Movement that we associate with the 1960s was the culmination of a vast set of social and economic changes. The tradition of Black struggle itself, going back to the very beginnings o... Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor Miah, Malik Article 2013 Malcom X's speech given nearly 50 years ago still remains valid today even in the age of the first African-American president and a sizable Congressional Black Caucus. While much has changed legally a... Obama and "I Have a Dream" in 2008: Against The Current vol. 132 Miah, Malik Article 2008 As we enter the 2008 presidential election, it is noteworthy that Illinois Senator Barack Obama is still a serious contender for the Democratic Party nomination. I say “noteworthy” because his campaig... On Roediger's Wages of Whiteness Allen, Theodore, W. Article 2002 An extended discussion and critique of David Roediger's book Wages of Whiteness. Allen writes: "David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, because of its almost universal acceptance for use in colleges and ... Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970 Stone, I.F. Book 1972 An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970. Prison Labor: Workin' For The Man: Article in Covert Action Quarterly #54, Fall 1995 Erlich, Reese Article 1995 Article analysing the roots of prison labour in America. Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest: Against The Current vol. 146 Miah, Malik Article 2010 Consider the following contradiction of modern African-American politics: We have the first African-American president (he checked “Black” on the new census form) offering hope to millions of working-... Race & Class: Obama Forgets Black Community: Against The Current vol. 145 Miah, Malik Article 2010 What I found most striking about President Barack Obama’s first “State of the Union” address before Congress on January 27 was what he didn’t say. In his 70-minute speech on the economy as the first p... Race and Class: Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later: Against The Current vol. 111 Miah, Malik Article 2004 I found the headline of the May 17 Business Week article on the 50th anniversary of the famous Brown v. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court ruling, that "separate but equal" schools were unconst... Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi Spritzler, John Article 2009 The poor whites of Mississippi who fought the Confederacy alongside slaves did so because of working class values that they shared with slaves. The fact that poor whites may have believed some racist ... Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans: Against The Current vol. 120 Miah, Malik Article 2006 It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class... Race and Class: The Wealth Gap: Against The Current vol. 88 Miah, Malik Article 2000 Politicians and government officials point to the historic low unemployment level in the Black community as signs of a strong economy and a future where whites and African Americans will finally have ... Racial Capitalism and the "Digital Divide": Against The Current vol. 84 Miah, Malik Article 2000 The dialogue on race and nationality in the United States has always been conducted from the standpoint of the dominant racial group—whites. Not surprisingly, President Clinton's commission on race p... Racism and Responsibility: Against The Current vol. 133 Fish, George Article 2008 Malik Miah writes in Against the Current 131, “[Orlando] Patterson, and others in Black academia and middle-class civil rights organizations, are right to point to internal problems within the Black c... Rebellions and Black Wealth: Against The Current vol. 116 Miah, Malik Article 2005 What is a working-class family’s most valuable asset? What does every family seek to own? Reflections After Ferguson Hansman, Bob Article 2015 I am a white man with a Black son. I did not have or get him young and fill his head with illusions of diversity and colorblindness, the way some white parents do. I met him when he was a young teen, ... Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit: Against The Current vol. 134 Higbee, Mark Article 2008 Historians and other scholars have given Detroit plentiful attention, including some very important books, yet in this vital new study Angela Dillard manages to approach the Motor City’s past in sever... Response to George Fish: Against The Current vol. 133 Miah, Malik Article 2008 George Fish raises an important point about the “taking personal responsibility” debate taking place within the Black community, especially at the academic and leadership level. But his criticism of m... Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology: Against The Current vol. 134 Miah, Malik Article 2008 The groundswell of broad support for Barack Obama (both among Blacks and whites) is a phenomenon that deserves a serious analysis and understanding. It cannot be down played by passing it through the ... Revisiting 'Black Power,' Race and Class Dunayevskaya, Raya Article 1967 There is no such suprahistorical abstraction as racism. In each historical period it was something different. It was one thing during slavery, another during Reconstruction, and quite something else t... Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence Moses, Greg Book 1998 Moses explores key ideas about Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy in relation to the American civil rights movement, racial equality and nonviolence. The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party: A Revolutionary Marxist Analysis Alexander, Donald Article 1993 A talk recounting the beginnings and tragic end of the Black Panther Power, a radical black power movement and political organization. Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter Thompson, Juan Article 2015 I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious... A Short History of Black Voter Suppression Parker, Nicholas Article 2012 The Right's organized movement to suppress the votes of African Americans and Latin Americans, and the urban and rural poor by means of the passing of voter ID (Poll Tax) laws in states receives no me... Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Blackmon, Douglas A. Book 2008 An account of how African Americans were forcibly enslaved by a corrupt legal system in the southern States, from the end of the Civil War through WWII. SNCC at 50 Walker, Corey D.B. Article 2010 The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is vitally important not just for learning and understanding the past but, more importantly, for imagin... The Socialist Register 1982: Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 1982 Stanley Crouch, Neocon or Ellisonian? Robinson, Greg Article 1997 Crouch clearly feels isolated within progressive circles, but it is the Left that most desperately needs to retain the message about building a cohesive democratic society. With that instinct for impr... Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: Connexipedia Article Article One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle West, Cornell Article 2018 Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal est... Thieving Sons of Bushes: Against The Current vol. 91 Miah, Malik Article 2001 “Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco... This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible Cobb, Charles E. Jr. Book 2014 Charles Cobb, a veteran civil rights activist who served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the American South, unfolds a powerful narrative about Southern grass... Towards the Abolition of Whiteness Roediger, David Book 1994 Roediger's genda is to show how race consciousness among whites needs to be fought so that the working class can be brought to an emancipatory agenda. Turner, Nat: Connexipedia Article Article American slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831. (1800-1831). Uncovering the Sixties: Life and Times of the Undergound Press Peck, Abe Book 1985 A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered t... Vote as the Class You Are, Not the Race You Aren't: Scott, Frank Article 2010 Many upper middle-professional class members of society who truly wish for a more just nation are either helpless to, totally incapable of, or have little desire to confront real power or create socia... The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Wilkerson, Isabel Book 2010 Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million p... What Black Lives Matter means for Labor Billeaux, Michael Article 2015 An account and analysis of the centrality of the Black freedom struggle to the working class movement as a whole, arguing that the struggle for Black liberation is a precondition for human liberation ... What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty Gurley, Lauren Article 2017 Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Why Black Lives Matter Is Game Change Miah, Malik Article 2015 The Cleveland Black Lives Matter Convening was a "game changer" because it made clear the Movement is long term. Whether its next step will add a call for a break with the two-party system, time and s... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryBlack Native Americans in the United States Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Black Native Americans is a term that refers to people of African-American descent, usually with significant Native American ancestry, who also have strong ties to Native American culture, social, and... Black Seminoles Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia The descendants of free blacks and some runaway slaves (maroons), mostly Gullahs who escaped from coastal South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations into the Spanish Florida wilderness beginning as e... Cherokee freedmen controversy Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia An ongoing political and tribal dispute between the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen regarding tribal citizenship. Cherokees Vote: Slave Descendants Expelled 2011 The Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation has upheld a 2007 tribal decision to kick thousands of descendants of black slaves out of the tribe. Choctaw Freedmen Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia The Choctaw freedmen were enslaved African Americans who became part of the Choctaw Nation with emancipation after the American Civil War. The John Lewis Conundrum: Caring for Justice or Carrying Water Fikre, Teodrose 2017 What the author is writing about John Lewis is not so much a condemnation as it is a reflection of the very meaning of justice and how we can fight for it. The Lives of Amiri Baraka Hunter, Kim D. 2014 A tribute to the life of author and poet Amiri Baraka who was active in the American Black Arts movement. |
