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Struggle on Their Minds - The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Hardcover)
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Struggle on Their Minds - The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Hardcover)
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American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back
against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of
political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin.
Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been
neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In this timely book, Alex
Zamalin considers key moments of resistance to demonstrate its
current and future necessity, focusing on five activists across two
centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in
American political discourse. Struggle on Their Minds shows how the
core values of the American political tradition have been
continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance,
creating a rich legacy of African American political thought that
is an invaluable component of contemporary struggles for racial
justice. Zamalin looks at the language and concepts put forward by
the abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the
antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party
organizer Huey Newton, and the prison abolitionist Angela Davis.
Each helped revise and transform ideas about power, justice,
community, action, and the role of emotion in political action.
Their thought encouraged abolitionists to call for the eradication
of slavery, black journalists to chastise American institutions for
their indifference to lynching, and black radicals to police the
police and to condemn racial injustice in the American prison
system. Taken together, these movements pushed political theory
forward, offering new language and concepts to sustain democracy in
tense times. Struggle on Their Minds is a critical text for our
contemporary moment, showing how the political thought that comes
out of resistance can energize the practice of democratic
citizenship and ultimately help address the prevailing problem of
racial injustice.
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Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2017 |
Authors: |
Alex Zamalin
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Trade binding
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-18110-5 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-231-18110-8 |
Barcode: |
9780231181105 |
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