A Revolutionary Detroit Memoir
Book Review

http://solidarity-us.org/atc/198/joann-castle/
Date Written:  2019-01-01
Publisher:  Against the Current
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23475

Review of autobiographical memoir of a white, working-class, Catholic woman who became involved in Black activisim.

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What My Left Hand Was Doing
By Joann Castle
Against the Tide Books, 2018, 334 pages, paper $22

Joann Castle's memoir chronicles how a white, working-class mother of six children evolved into a revolutionary socialist involved with the Black Liberation movement. Her title comes from Walter Benjamin writing about the inadequacy of "competence" versus the strengths of improvisations. Benjamin concluded, "All decisive blows are stuck left-handed."