An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for
energizing American democracy On August 12, 2017, in
Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white
supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the
street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in
the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp
relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists
marched and chanted in the streets, they were met and matched by
even larger numbers of protesters calling for racism's end. Racism
is America's original and most enduring sin, with well-known
historic and contemporary markers: slavery, lynching, Jim Crow,
redlining, mass incarceration, police brutality. But racism has
always been challenged by an opposing political theory and
practice. Alex Zamalin's Antiracism tells the story of that
opposition. The most theoretically generative and politically
valuable source of antiracist thought has been the black American
intellectual tradition. While other forms of racial oppression-for
example, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Latino racism-have
been and continue to be present in American life, antiblack racism
has always been the primary focus of American antiracist movements.
From antislavery abolition to the antilynching movement, black
socialism to feminism, the long Civil Rights movement to the
contemporary Movement for Black Lives, Antiracism examines the way
the black antiracist tradition has thought about domination,
exclusion, and power, as well as freedom, equality, justice,
struggle, and political hope in dark times. Antiracism is an
accessible introduction to the political theory of black American
antiracism, through a study of the major figures, texts, and
political movements across US history. Zamalin argues that
antiracism is a powerful tradition that is crucial for energizing
American democracy.
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