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This fresh and invigorating analysis illuminates the
often-neglected story of early African American civil rights
activism. African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the
Niagara Movement tells a fascinating story, one that is too
frequently marginalized. Offering the first full-length,
comprehensive sociological analysis of the Niagara Movement, which
existed between 1905 and 1910, the book demonstrates that, although
short-lived, the movement was far from a failure. Rather, it made
the need to annihilate Jim Crow and address the atrocities caused
by slavery publicly visible, creating a foundation for more widely
celebrated mid-20th-century achievements. This unique study focuses
on what author Angela Jones terms black publics, groups of
concerned citizens-men and women, alike-who met to shift public
opinion. The book explores their pivotal role in initiating the
civil rights movement, specifically examining secular
organizations, intellectual circles, the secular black press, black
honor societies and clubs, and prestigious educational networks.
All of these, Jones convincingly demonstrates, were seminal to the
development of civil rights protest in the early 20th century.
Primary source documents including the Niagara Movement's
"Declaration of Principles" A chronology of the development of the
civil rights movement Photographs of key players in the Niagara
Movement An expansive bibliography encompassing titles from
sociology, political science, and history
An instant classic. --Arianna Huffington Will inspire people from
across the political spectrum. --Jonathan Haidt Longlisted for the
Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, an essential shortlist
of leadership ideas for everyone who wants to do good in this
world, from Jacqueline Novogratz, author of the New York Times
bestseller The Blue Sweater and founder and CEO of Acumen. In 2001,
when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of
socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to
changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact
investing--Acumen's practice of "doing well by doing good."
Nineteen years later, there's been a seismic shift in how corporate
boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact
investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically
advantageous, even necessary. Still, it isn't easy to reach a
success that includes profits as well as mutually favorable
relationships with workers and the communities in which they live.
So how can today's leaders, who often kick off their enterprises
with high hopes and short timetables, navigate the challenges of
poverty and war, of egos and impatience, which have stymied
generations of investors who came before? Drawing on inspiring
stories from change-makers around the world and on memories of her
own most difficult experiences, Jacqueline divulges the most common
leadership mistakes and the mind-sets needed to rise above them.
The culmination of thirty years of work developing sustainable
solutions for the problems of the poor, Manifesto for a Moral
Revolution offers the perspectives necessary for all those--whether
ascending the corporate ladder or bringing solar light to rural
villages--who seek to leave this world better off than they found
it.
Bantu Holomisa is one of South Africa’s most respected and popular political figures. Born in the Transkei in 1955, he attended an elite school for the sons of chiefs and headmen. While other men his age were joining Umkhonto weSizwe, Holomisa enrolled in the Transkeian Defence Force and rose rapidly through the ranks.
As head of the Transkeian Defence Force, Holomisa led successive coups against the homeland regimes and then became the head of its military government. He turned the Transkei into a ‘liberated space’, giving shelter to ANC and PAC activists, and declared his intention of holding a referendum on the reincorporation of the Transkei into South Africa. These actions brought him immense popularity and the military dictator became a liberation hero for many South Africans.
When the unbanned ANC held its first election for its national executive in 1994, Holomisa, who had by now joined the party, received the most votes, beating long-time veterans and party stalwarts. He and Mandela developed a close relationship, and Holomisa served in Mandela’s cabinet as deputy minister for environmental affairs and tourism. As this biography reveals, the relationship with both Mandela and the ANC broke down after Holomisa testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, among other issues, that Stella Sigcau and her cabinet colleagues had accepted a bribe from Sol Kerzner.
After being expelled from the ANC, Holomisa formed his own party, the United Democratic Movement, with Roelf Meyer. As leader of the UDM, Holomisa has played a prominent role in building coalitions among opposition parties and in leading important challenges to the dominant party.
This biography, written in collaboration with Holomisa, presents an engaging and revealing account of a man who has made his mark as a game changer in South African politics.
Azzam Tamimi introduces the thought of Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi,
the renowned Islamist political activist who heads Tunisia's most
important Islamist political party, Ennahda, previously banned by
the authoritarian regime of Zine Abidine Ben Ali, and now the main
party in the tripartite government in Tunisia. Ghannouchi, who
lived in exile for many years as he was hunted by the Tunisian
regime, is also the leader of a school in modern Islamic political
thought that advocates democracy and pluralism. While insisting on
the compatibility of democracy with Islam, he believes that because
of their secular foundations, contemporary forms of liberal
democracy may not suit Muslim societies. Ghannouchi insists,
however, that Islam is compatible with Western thought in matters
concerning the system of government, human rights, and civil
liberties. Tamimi does an excellent job in unpacking Ghannouchi the
person, the political activist, and the scholar. His treatment of
Ghannouchi’s ideology is unique and highlights why Ghannouchi is
probably the deepest and most important Islamist intellectual of
our time.
An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves
to the struggle for racial equality in the United States. In the
late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New
York City as brothers with very different personalities, interests,
and professional goals. Joel was impetuous and high-spirited;
Arthur was reasoned and studious. Yet together they would become
essential leaders in the struggle for racial justice and equality,
serving as presidents of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, exposing inequities, overseeing key
court cases, and lobbying presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to
John F. Kennedy. In The Spingarn Brothers, Katherine Reynolds
Chaddock sheds new light on the story of these fascinating brothers
and explores how their Jewish heritage and experience as
second-generation immigrants led to their fight for racial
equality. Upon graduating from Columbia University, Arthur joined a
top Manhattan law practice, while Joel became a professor of
comparative literature. The two soon witnessed growing racial
injustices in the city and joined the NAACP in 1909, its founding
year. Arthur began to aim his legal practice toward issues of
discrimination, while Joel founded the NAACP's New York City
branch. Drawing from personal letters, journals, and archives,
Chaddock uncovers some of the motivations and influences that
guided the Spingarns. Both brothers served in World War I, married,
and pursued numerous interests that ranged from running for
Congress to collecting rare books and manuscripts by Black authors
around the world. In this dual biography, Chaddock illustrates how
the Spingarn brothers' unique personalities, Jewish heritage, and
family history shaped their personal and professional lives into an
ongoing fight for racial justice.
Daniel Dumile Qeqe (1929–2005), ‘Baas Dan’, ‘DDQ’. He was the Port Elizabeth leader whose struggles and triumphs crisscrossed the entire gamut of political, civic, entrepreneurial, sports and recreational liberation activism in the Eastern Cape. Siwisa tells the story of Qeqe’s life and times and at the same time has written a social and political biography of Port Elizabeth – a people’s history of Port Elizabeth. As much as Qeqe was a local legend, his achievements had national repercussions and, indeed, continue to this day.
Central to the transformation of sports towards non-racialism, Qeqe paved the way for the mainstreaming and liberation of black rugby and cricket players in South Africa. He co-engineered the birth of the KwaZakhele Rugby Union (Kwaru), a pioneering non-racial rugby union that was more of a political and social movement. Kwaru was a vehicle for political dialogues and banned meetings, providing resources for political campaigns and orchestrations for moving activists into exile.
This story is an attempt at understanding a man of contradictions. In one breath, he was generous and kind to a fault. And yet he was the indlovu, an imposing authoritarian elephant, decisively brutal and aggressive. Then there was Qeqe, the man whose actions were not in keeping with the struggle. This story narrates his role in ‘collaborationist’ civic institutions and in courting reactionary homeland structures, yet through all that he was the signal actor in the emancipation of rugby in South Africa.
Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of
Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw
an upsurge in race riots and lynchings. Following the example of
her grandfather, an ex-slave and community leader, Marian joined
the NAACP at thirteen and grew up to achieve not only a number of
civic leadership firsts in her adopted home city of Cincinnati, but
a legacy of lasting civil rights victories. Of these, the best
known is the desegregation of Cincinnati's Coney Island amusement
park. She also fought to desegregate Cincinnati schools and to stop
the introduction of observers in black voting precincts in Ohio.
Her campaign to raise awareness of industrial toxic-waste practices
in minority neighborhoods was later adapted into national Superfund
legislation. In 2012, Marian's friend and colleague Dot Christenson
sat down with her to record her memories. The resulting biography
not only gives us the life story of remarkable leader but
encapsulates many of the twentieth century's greatest struggles and
advances. Spencer's story will prove inspirational and instructive
to citizens and students alike.
This is the powerful and moving life story of one of South Africa's
leading trade union activists, from her childhood in Sophiatown to
her first marriage and divorce, the dark days of her six months in
detention and her lasting contributions to labour organisation in
South Africa. Strikes have followed me all my life was first
published in 1989 by The women's press but was never available in
South Africa. Emma Mashinini's autobiography is an accessible,
engaging account of a self-effacing union organiser, gender-rights
activist and a phenomenal woman who has lived a difficult life and
endured many challenges: detention without trial for six months
(most of which were spent in solitary confinement); losing two
daughters and a son-in-law; health problems as a result of
detention; and constant abuse at the hands of apartheid's
enforcers. But Emma's story is one of courage. It is engaging, at
times sad (there is a heart-breaking moment in the text when she
forgets her daughter’s name while in solitary confinement), but
mostly it is an inspirational account of a selfless individual.
This edition includes a Foreword by Jay Naidoo that brings the
reader up to date with Emma’s life and opinions and the state of
the labour movement in South Africa as well as moving letters from
Mashinini's family that were written to her on her 80th birthday.
This is a classic South African memoir in the same vein as Ellen
Kuzwayo's call me woman, which recalls and preserves vital accounts
of South Africa's history.
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Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the
Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality
and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of
the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of
the social unrest characterized by the Occupy movements. He
outlined the political risks they might pose, and at what might be
done to diminish inequality and allow such workers to find a more
stable labour identity.His concept and his conclusions have been
widely taken up by thinkers from Noam Chomsky to Zygmunt Bauman, by
political activists and by policy-makers. This new book takes the
debate a stage further-looking in more detail at the kind of
progressive politics that might form the vision of a Good Society
in which such inequality, and the instability it produces is
reduced. "A Precariat Charter "discusses how rights - political,
civil, social and economic - have been denied to the Precariat, and
at the importance of redefining our social contract around notions
of associational freedom, agency and the commons. The ecological
imperative is also discussed - something that was only hinted at in
Standing's original book but has been widely discussed in relation
to the Precariat by theorists and activists alike.
As racist undercurrents in many western societies become manifestly
entrenched, the prevalence of Islamophobia - and the need to
understand what perpetuates it - has never been greater. Critiquing
the arguments found in notionally left accounts and addressing the
limitations of existing responses, What is Islamophobia?
demonstrates that Islamophobia is not simply a product of abstract,
or discursive, ideological processes, but of concrete social,
political and cultural actions undertaken in the pursuit of certain
interests. The book centres on what the editors refer to as the
'five pillars of Islamophobia': the institutions and machinery of
the state; the far right, incorporating the counterjihad movement;
the neoconservative movement; the transnational Zionist movement;
and assorted liberal groupings including the pro-war left, and the
new atheist movement. The book concludes with reflections on
existing strategies for tackling Islamophobia, considering what
their distinctive approaches mean for fighting back.
The third edition of the manual for community organizers tells
readers how to most effectively implement community action for
social change, clearly laying out grassroots organizing principles,
methods, and best practices. Written for those who want to improve
their own lives or the lives of others, this thoroughly revised
how-to manual presents techniques groups can use to organize
successfully in pursuit of their dreams. The book combines
time-tested, universal principles and methods with cutting-edge
material addressing new opportunities and challenges. It covers
basic concepts and best practices and offers step-by-step
guidelines on things an organizer needs to know, such as how to
identify issues, formulate strategies, set goals, recruit
participants, and much more. The work focuses on six organizing
arenas: turf/geography, failth-based, issue, identity, shared
experience, and work-related. It offers new or expanded material
addressing community development, use of social media, internal
organizational dynamics, electoral organizing,
evaluation/assessment, and prevention of burnout for key leaders.
There are also nuts-and-bolts articles by experts who address
topics such as action research, lobbying, legal tactics, and
grassroots fundraising. Numerous case examples, charts, worksheets,
and small group exercises enrich the discussion and bring the
material to life. Provides clear, step-by-step guidelines for
building grassroots organizations, selecting and framing issues,
establishing goals, developing leadership, planning and
implementing actions, and assessing results Explores the distinct
roles of members, leaders, and organizers Shares case materials
that demonstrate community organizing strategies and tactics used
to leverage institutions at the state, regional, and national
levels Discusses why some strategies succeed while others fail
Includes campaign-planning worksheets and small-group exercises
suitable for community-based training sessions and workshops as
well as for undergraduate or graduate level courses
In this indispensable book, distinguished activist lawyer Francis
A. Boyle sounds an impassioned clarion call to citizen action
against Bush administration policies, both domestic and
international. Especially since the Reagan Administration, hundreds
of thousands of Americans have used non-violent civil resistance to
protest against elements of U.S. policy that violate basic
principles of international law, the United States Constitution,
and human rights. Such citizen protests have led to an
unprecedented number of arrests and prosecutions by federal, state,
and local governments around the country. Boyle, who has spent his
career advising and defending civil resisters, explores how
international law can be used to question the legality of specific
U.S. government foreign and domestic policies. He focuses
especially on the aftermath of 9/11 and the implications of the war
on Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, the war on Iraq, the doctrine
of preventive warfare, and the domestic abridgement of civil
rights. Written for concerned citizens, activists, NGOs, civil
resisters, their supporters, and their lawyers, Protesting Power
provides the best legal and constitutional arguments to support and
defend civil resistance activities. Including a number of
compelling excerpts from his own trial appearances as an expert
witness and as counsel, the author offers inspirational and
practical advice for protesters who find themselves in court. This
invaluable book stands alone as the only guide available on how to
use international law, constitutional law, and the laws of war to
defend peaceful non-violent protesters against governmental
policies that are illegal and criminal.
In this indispensable book, distinguished activist lawyer Francis
A. Boyle sounds an impassioned clarion call to citizen action
against Bush administration policies, both domestic and
international. Especially since the Reagan Administration, hundreds
of thousands of Americans have used non-violent civil resistance to
protest against elements of U.S. policy that violate basic
principles of international law, the United States Constitution,
and human rights. Such citizen protests have led to an
unprecedented number of arrests and prosecutions by federal, state,
and local governments around the country. Boyle, who has spent his
career advising and defending civil resisters, explores how
international law can be used to question the legality of specific
U.S. government foreign and domestic policies. He focuses
especially on the aftermath of 9/11 and the implications of the war
on Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, the war on Iraq, the doctrine
of preventive warfare, and the domestic abridgement of civil
rights. Written for concerned citizens, activists, NGOs, civil
resisters, their supporters, and their lawyers, Protesting Power
provides the best legal and constitutional arguments to support and
defend civil resistance activities. Including a number of
compelling excerpts from his own trial appearances as an expert
witness and as counsel, the author offers inspirational and
practical advice for protesters who find themselves in court. This
invaluable book stands alone as the only guide available on how to
use international law, constitutional law, and the laws of war to
defend peaceful non-violent protesters against governmental
policies that are illegal and criminal.
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