Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity
Title | Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity PDF eBook |
Author | Gaye Theresa Johnson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2013-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520954858 |
In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the present. Johnson argues that struggles waged in response to institutional and social repression have created both moments and movements in which Blacks and Chicanos have unmasked power imbalances, sought recognition, and forged solidarities by embracing the strategies, cultures, and politics of each others' experiences. At the center of this study is the theory of spatial entitlement: the spatial strategies and vernaculars utilized by working class youth to resist the demarcations of race and class that emerged in the postwar era. In this important new book, Johnson reveals how racial alliances and antagonisms between Blacks and Chicanos in L.A. had spatial as well as racial dimensions.
Samurai Among Panthers
Title | Samurai Among Panthers PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Carol Fujino |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 476 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0816677867 |
The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki
Futures of Black Radicalism
Title | Futures of Black Radicalism PDF eBook |
Author | Gaye Theresa Johnson |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2017-08-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784787574 |
With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key intellectuals—inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J. Robinson—recall the powerful tradition of Black radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it inspires. In a time when activists in Ferguson, Palestine, Baltimore, and Hong Kong immediately connect across vast distances, this book makes clear that new Black radical politics is thoroughly internationalist and redraws the links between Black resistance and anti-capitalism. Featuring the key voices in this new intellectual wave, this collection outlines one of the most vibrant areas of thought today. With contributions from Greg Burris, Jordan T. Camp, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Avery F. Gordon, Stefano Harney, Christina Heatherton, Robin D.G. Kelley, George Lipsitz, Fred Moten, Paul Ortiz, Steven Osuna, Kwame M. Phillips, Shana L. Redmond, Cedric J. Robinson, Elizabeth P. Robinson, Nikhil Pal Singh, Damien M. Sojoyner, Darryl C. Thomas, and Françoise Vergès.
Spaces of Solidarity
Title | Spaces of Solidarity PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Sharples |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 181 |
Release | 2020-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789207177 |
Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands. A key focus of the book is to look at this engagement in terms of spaces of solidarity – constructed through patterns of activism, paths of connectivity and processes of cultural recovery. The book also studies the spatial configuration of borderlands, examining the impact of cross-border activities and their inter-related nature.
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Title | An African American and Latinx History of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Ortiz |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2018-01-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807013102 |
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism. Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links racial segregation in the Southwest and the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, known as International Workers’ Day, when migrant laborers—Chicana/os, Afrocubanos, and immigrants from every continent on earth—united in resistance on the first “Day Without Immigrants.” As African American civil rights activists fought Jim Crow laws and Mexican labor organizers warred against the suffocating grip of capitalism, Black and Spanish-language newspapers, abolitionists, and Latin American revolutionaries coalesced around movements built between people from the United States and people from Central America and the Caribbean. In stark contrast to the resurgence of “America First” rhetoric, Black and Latinx intellectuals and organizers today have historically urged the United States to build bridges of solidarity with the nations of the Americas. Incisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americans, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights. 2018 Winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
The Tide Was Always High
Title | The Tide Was Always High PDF eBook |
Author | Josh Kun |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2017-09-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520294408 |
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The American Dream and Dreams Deferred
Title | The American Dream and Dreams Deferred PDF eBook |
Author | Carlton D. Floyd |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2022-11-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1793634122 |
The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale shows how rival interpretations of the Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring often neglected voices, literatures, and histories, Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer highlight moments when the American Dream appears both simultaneously possible and out of reach. In so doing, the authors invite readers to make a new collective dream of a better future, on socially just, multicultural, and ecologically sustainable foundations.