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Sojourning for Freedom

Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism

By: Erik S. McDuffie

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Sojourning for Freedom

Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism

By: Erik S. McDuffie

Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.

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Duke University Press

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0822350505

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The Second Battle for Africa

Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom

By: Erik S. McDuffie

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The Second Battle for Africa

Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom

By: Erik S. McDuffie

In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and enduring incubators of Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and its offshoots. Throughout the region, Black thinkers, activists, and cultural workers, like the Grenada-born activist Louise Little, championed Black freedom. McDuffie explores Garveyism and its changing facets from the 1920s onward, including the role of Black midwesterners during the emergence of fascism in the 1930s, the postwar US Black Freedom Movement and African decolonization, the rise of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X in the 1950s and 1960s, and the continuing legacy of Garvey in today’s Black Midwest. Throughout, McDuffie evaluates the possibilities, limitations, and gendered contours of Black nationalism, radicalism, and internationalism in the UNIA and Garvey-inspired movements. In so doing, he unveils new histories of Black liberation and Global Africa.

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Duke University Press

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1478060069

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Death Blow to Jim Crow

The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights

By: Erik S. Gellman

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Death Blow to Jim Crow

The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights

By: Erik S. Gellman

During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as necessary for reinvigorating American democracy. Much more than just a precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement, this activism created the most militant interracial freedom movement since Reconstruction, one that sought to empower the American labor movement to make demands on industrialists, white supremacists, and the state as never before. By focusing on the complex alliances between unions, civic groups, and the Communist Party in five geographic regions, Gellman explains how the NNC and its allies developed and implemented creative grassroots strategies to weaken Jim Crow, if not deal it the "death blow" they sought.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807869937

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9780807869932

Sojourning for Freedom

Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism

By: Erik S. McDuffie

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Sojourning for Freedom

Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism

By: Erik S. McDuffie

Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.

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Sojourning for Freedom

Sojourning for Freedom

The Second Battle for Africa

The Second Battle for Africa

Death Blow to Jim Crow

Death Blow to Jim Crow

Sojourning for Freedom

Sojourning for Freedom

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