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A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has
infused the US government’s anti-communist repression.  In
the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United
States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of
Black Nationalism and dread at what social, economic, and political
equality of Black people might entail. The Red Scare, sparked by
communist uprisings abroad and subversion at home, established
anticapitalism as a force capable of infiltrating and disrupting
the American order. In Black Scare / Red Scare, Charisse
Burden-Stelly meticulously outlines the conjoined nature of these
state-sanctioned panics, revealing how they unfolded together as
the United States pursued capitalist domination. Antiradical
repression, she shows, is inseparable from anti-Black oppression,
and vice versa.  Beginning her account in 1917—the year of
the Bolshevik Revolution, the East St. Louis Race Riot, and the
Espionage Act—Burden-Stelly traces the long duration of these
intertwined and mutually reinforcing phenomena. She theorizes two
bases of the Black Scare / Red Scare: US Capitalist Racist Society,
a racially hierarchical political economy built on exploitative
labor relationships, and Wall Street Imperialism, the violent
processes by which businesses and the US government structured
domestic and foreign policies to consolidate capital and racial
domination. In opposition, Radical Blackness embodied the
government’s fear of both Black insurrection and Red instigation.
The state’s actions and rhetoric therefore characterized Black
anticapitalists as foreign, alien, and undesirable. This
reactionary response led to an ideology that Burden-Stelly calls
True Americanism, the belief that the best things about America
were absolutely not Red and not Black, which were interchangeable
threats. Â Black Scare / Red Scare illuminates the
anticommunist nature of the US and its governance, but also shines
a light on a misunderstood tradition of struggle for Black
liberation. Burden-Stelly highlights the Black anticapitalist
organizers working within and alongside the international communist
movement and analyzes the ways the Black Scare/Red Scare
reverberates through ongoing suppression of Black radical activism
today. Drawing on a range of administrative, legal, and archival
sources, Burden-Stelly incorporates emancipatory ideas from several
disciplines to uncover novel insights into Black political
minorities and their legacy.
A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has
infused the US government’s anti-communist repression.  In
the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United
States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of
Black Nationalism and dread at what social, economic, and political
equality of Black people might entail. The Red Scare, sparked by
communist uprisings abroad and subversion at home, established
anticapitalism as a force capable of infiltrating and disrupting
the American order. In Black Scare / Red Scare, Charisse
Burden-Stelly meticulously outlines the conjoined nature of these
state-sanctioned panics, revealing how they unfolded together as
the United States pursued capitalist domination. Antiradical
repression, she shows, is inseparable from anti-Black oppression,
and vice versa.  Beginning her account in 1917—the year of
the Bolshevik Revolution, the East St. Louis Race Riot, and the
Espionage Act—Burden-Stelly traces the long duration of these
intertwined and mutually reinforcing phenomena. She theorizes two
bases of the Black Scare / Red Scare: US Capitalist Racist Society,
a racially hierarchical political economy built on exploitative
labor relationships, and Wall Street Imperialism, the violent
processes by which businesses and the US government structured
domestic and foreign policies to consolidate capital and racial
domination. In opposition, Radical Blackness embodied the
government’s fear of both Black insurrection and Red instigation.
The state’s actions and rhetoric therefore characterized Black
anticapitalists as foreign, alien, and undesirable. This
reactionary response led to an ideology that Burden-Stelly calls
True Americanism, the belief that the best things about America
were absolutely not Red and not Black, which were interchangeable
threats. Â Black Scare / Red Scare illuminates the
anticommunist nature of the US and its governance, but also shines
a light on a misunderstood tradition of struggle for Black
liberation. Burden-Stelly highlights the Black anticapitalist
organizers working within and alongside the international communist
movement and analyzes the ways the Black Scare/Red Scare
reverberates through ongoing suppression of Black radical activism
today. Drawing on a range of administrative, legal, and archival
sources, Burden-Stelly incorporates emancipatory ideas from several
disciplines to uncover novel insights into Black political
minorities and their legacy.
Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century
fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building
collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete
materialist analysis of the conditions of Black workers, these
women argued that racial and economic equality can only be achieved
by overthrowing capitalism. The first collection of its kind,
Organize, Fight, Win brings together three decades of Black
Communist women's political writings. In doing so, it highlights
the link between Communism and Black liberation. Likewise, it makes
clear how Black women fundamentally shaped, and were shaped by,
Communist praxis in the twentieth century. Organize, Fight, Win
includes writings from card-carrying Communists like Dorothy
Burnham, Williana Burroughs, Grace P. Campbell, Alice Childress,
Marvel Cooke, Esther Cooper Jackson, Thelma Dale Perkins, Vicki
Garvin, Yvonne Gregory, Claudia Jones, Maude White Katz, and Louise
Thompson Patterson, and writings by those who organized alongside
the Communist Party, like Ella Baker, Charlotta Bass, Thyra
Edwards, Lorraine Hansberry, and Dorothy Hunton.
This transformative collection advances new approaches to Black
intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of
people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public
discourse and power. While the anthology highlights renowned
intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois, it also spotlights thinkers
such as enslaved people in the antebellum United States, US Black
expatriates in Guyana, and Black internationals in Liberia. The
knowledge production of these men, women, and children has
typically been situated outside the disciplinary and conceptual
boundaries of intellectual history. The volume centers on the
themes of slavery and sexuality; abolitionism; Black
internationalism; Black protest, politics, and power; and the
intersections of the digital humanities and Black intellectual
history. The essays draw from diverse methodologies and fields to
examine the ideas and actions of Black thinkers from the eighteenth
century to the present, offering fresh insights while creating
space for even more creative approaches within the field. Timely
and incisive, Ideas in Unexpected Places encourages scholars to ask
new questions through innovative interpretive lenses-and invites
students, scholars, and other practitioners to push the boundaries
of Black intellectual history even further.
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen,
the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies.
For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most
articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in
Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of
Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora
studies. His work on the postcolonial elites in the region, first
given full articulation in his book The Costs of Regime Survival:
Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in
Guyana and Trinidad, is unparalleled. Reproducing Domination
contains some of Hintzen's most important Caribbean essays over a
twenty-five-year period, from 1995 to the present. These works have
broadened and deepened his earlier work in The Costs of Regime
Survival to encompass the entire Anglophone Caribbean; interrogated
the formation and consolidation of the postcolonial Anglophone
Caribbean state; and theorized the role of race and ethnicity in
Anglophone Caribbean politics. Given the recent global resurgence
of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to
power and governance, Hintzen's work assumes even more resonance
beyond the shores of the Caribbean. This groundbreaking volume
serves as an important guide for those concerned with tracing the
consolidation of power in the new elite that emerged following flag
independence in the 1960s.
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen,
the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies.
For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most
articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in
Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of
Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora
studies. His work on the postcolonial elites in the region, first
given full articulation in his book The Costs of Regime Survival:
Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in
Guyana and Trinidad, is unparalleled. Reproducing Domination
contains some of Hintzen's most important Caribbean essays over a
twenty-five-year period, from 1995 to the present. These works have
broadened and deepened his earlier work in The Costs of Regime
Survival to encompass the entire Anglophone Caribbean; interrogated
the formation and consolidation of the postcolonial Anglophone
Caribbean state; and theorized the role of race and ethnicity in
Anglophone Caribbean politics. Given the recent global resurgence
of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to
power and governance, Hintzen's work assumes even more resonance
beyond the shores of the Caribbean. This groundbreaking volume
serves as an important guide for those concerned with tracing the
consolidation of power in the new elite that emerged following flag
independence in the 1960s.
This book provides a new interpretation of the life of W.E.B. Du
Bois, one of the most important African American scholars and
thinkers of the 20th century. This revealing biography captures the
full life of W.E.B. Du Bois-historian, sociologist, author, editor,
and a leader in the fight to bring African Americans more fully
into the American landscape as well as a forceful proponent of
their leaving America altogether and returning to Africa. Drawing
on extensive research and including new primary documents,
sidebars, and analysis, Gerald Horne and Charisse Burden-Stelly
offer a portrait of this remarkable man, paying special attention
to the often-overlooked radical decades at the end of Du Bois's
life. The book also highlights Du Bois's relationships with and
influence on civil rights activists, intellectuals, and freedom
fighters, among them Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Shirley
Graham Du Bois, Louise Thompson Patterson, William Alphaeus Hunton,
and Martin Luther King, Jr. The biography includes a selection of
primary source documents, including personal letters, speeches,
poems, and newspaper articles, that provide insight into Du Bois's
life based on his own words and analysis. Provides a comprehensive
overview of the life and times of W.E.B. Du Bois Takes an
interdisciplinary approach to his life and works Traces his
radicalization over time Pays particular attention to the effects
of the Cold War and anticommunism on his philosophy Provides key
primary documents with explanations of their significance
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