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Towers of Ivory and Steel - How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Paperback): Maya Wind Towers of Ivory and Steel - How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Paperback)
Maya Wind; Foreword by Nadia Abu el-Haj; Afterword by Robin D.G. Kelley
R614 R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights. As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. Towers of Ivory and Steel is a powerful expose of Israeli academia's ongoing and active complicity in Israel's settler-colonial project.

The Jazz Loft Project - Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 (Hardcover, First Edition,... The Jazz Loft Project - Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 (Hardcover, First Edition, Enlarged)
W.Eugene Smith; Sam Stephenson; Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
R1,019 Discovery Miles 10 190 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Reissue of an acclaimed collection of images from photographer W. Eugene Smith's time in a New York City loft among jazz musicians. In 1957, Eugene Smith walked away from his longtime job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City's wholesale flower district. The loft was the late-night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazz-Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among them. Here, from 1957 to 1965, he made nearly 40,000 photographs and approximately 4,000 hours of recordings of musicians. Smith found solace in the chaotic, somnambulistic world of the loft and its artists, and he turned his documentary impulses away from work on his major Pittsburg photo essay and toward his new surroundings. Smith's Jazz Loft Project has been legendary in the worlds of art, photography, and music for more than forty years, but until the publication of this book, no one had seen his extraordinary photographs or read any of the firsthand accounts of those who were there and lived to tell the tales.

Breaking the Chains - African-American Slave Resistance (Paperback): William Loren Katz Breaking the Chains - African-American Slave Resistance (Paperback)
William Loren Katz; Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley
R440 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R80 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Freedom Dreams (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) - The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback): Robin D.G. Kelley Freedom Dreams (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) - The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
Robin D.G. Kelley
R568 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R125 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thelonious Monk - The Life and Times of an American Original (Paperback): Robin D.G. Kelley Thelonious Monk - The Life and Times of an American Original (Paperback)
Robin D.G. Kelley
R681 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R142 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thelonious Monk is one of the most popular jazz composers and pianists since Duke Ellington, and a cultural icon of cool. This first complete biography is written with full access to the family's archives.

The Russian Revolution - A View From The Third World (Paperback): Walter Rodney The Russian Revolution - A View From The Third World (Paperback)
Walter Rodney; Afterword by Vijay Prashad; Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley
R542 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R119 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, woven together from lecture excerpts by the renowned Pan-African revolutionary socialist theorist

In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaica’s Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney was assassinated.

Walter Rodney’s The Russian Revolution collects surviving texts from a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Dar es Salaam, an intellectual hub of the independent Third World. It had been his intention to work these into a book, a goal completed posthumously with the editorial aid of Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin. Moving across the historiography of the long Russian Revolution with clarity and insight, Rodney transcends the ideological fault lines of the Cold War. Surveying a broad range of subjects—the Narodniks, social democracy, the October Revolution, civil war, and the challenges of Stalinism—Rodney articulates a distinct viewpoint from the Third World, one that grounds revolutionary theory and history with the people in motion.

Our History Has Always Been Contraband - In Defense of Black Studies: Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta... Our History Has Always Been Contraband - In Defense of Black Studies
Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
R546 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R90 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History Of Pan-african Revolt (Paperback): C. L. R. James A History Of Pan-african Revolt (Paperback)
C. L. R. James; Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley
R443 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R79 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America (Paperback): Sean Anderson, Mabel O. Wilson Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America (Paperback)
Sean Anderson, Mabel O. Wilson; Preface by Robin D.G. Kelley; Text written by Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, …
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Scottsboro, Alabama - A Story in Linoleum Cuts (Paperback): Lin Shi Khan, Tony Perez Scottsboro, Alabama - A Story in Linoleum Cuts (Paperback)
Lin Shi Khan, Tony Perez; Edited by Andrew H. Lee; Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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"Scotsboro, Alabama still has the power to inspire anger and outrage--and to remind us of a political legacy that still has relevance for the 21st century."
-- "Against the Current"

"This extraordinary graphic book from 1935 reproduces 118 linocuts illustrating the history of African Americans up to and including the Scottsboro trialsa]. A highly charged political indictment and work of art.a] highly recommended."
--"Library Journal," starred review

aA unique, visually stunning worka]. Using a simple and striking visual style to link the struggles of black America and the working class, the book preserves the Scottsboro trial as a powerful symbol of oppression, and a stark reminder of the central and horrifying struggles of American history.a
--"Ruminator Review"

"The prints have tremendous visual power...they constitute a progenitor of the contemporary graphic novel that artistically outclasses most current examples of the genre."
--"Booklist"

aA disturbing if visually stunning record of an episode that should not be forgotten. To document history, it suggests, is to bear witness, however painfully, to the evil within some human souls--and to the redemptive power that being aware of that ominous energy it can bring.a
--"Black Issues Book Review"

"Visually powerfula] a great historical find--and a provocative way to think about the episode."
--"Chicago Tribune" (Editor's Choice)

"An unusual cultural treasure that deserves a wide public audience. Highly recommended."
--"MultiCultural Review"

"Wow! This is political art at its most powerful. These evocative images outrage and provoke, leaving an indelibleimpression of an unjust world at an unjust time. Scottsboro, Alabama will incite you to join the struggle for racial equality and justice."
--Alan Dershowitz, author of "Supreme Injustice"

"A stunning artifact, Scottsboro, Alabama's narrative and images capture the tragedy of race in the American South. I haven't seen anything this tersely powerful in years."
-- Nell Irvin Painter, author of "Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol"

"Lee's careful introduction gives readers a special understanding of the symbolism and subtlety of these powerful and evocative graphics."
-- "VOYA"

In 1931, nine black youths were falsely accused of raping two white women on a freight train traveling through northern Alabama. They were arrested and tried in four days, convicted of rape, and eight of them were sentenced to death. The ensuing legal battle spanned six years and involved two landmark decisions by the Supreme Court. One of the most well known and controversial legal decisions of our time, the Scottsboro case ignited the collective emotions of the country, which was still struggling to come to terms with fundamental issues of racial equality.

Scottsboro, Alabama, which consists of 118 exceptionally powerful linoleum prints, provides a unique graphic history of one of the most infamous, racially-charged episodes in the annals of the American judicial system, and of the racial and class struggle of the time. Originally printed in Seattle in 1935, this hitherto unknown document, of which no other known copies exist, is presented here for the first time. It includes a foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley and an introduction by Andrew H. Lee. Mr. Lee discovered the book as part of a gift tothe Tamiment Library by the family of Joe North, an important figure in the Communist Party-USA, and an editor at the seminal left-wing journal, the "New Masses,"

A true historical find and an excellent tool for teaching the case itself and the period which it so indelibly marked, this book allows us to see the Scottsboro case through a unique and highly provocative lens.

Hammer and Hoe - Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback, 25th Revised edition): Robin D.G. Kelley Hammer and Hoe - Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback, 25th Revised edition)
Robin D.G. Kelley
R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious, semi-literate black laborers, sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.

Rehearsals for Living (Paperback): Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Rehearsals for Living (Paperback)
Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Afterword by Robin D.G. Kelley
R554 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R90 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing each other letters-a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here. Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life.

To Make Our World Anew: Volume I (Paperback): Robin D.G. Kelley, Earl Lewis To Make Our World Anew: Volume I (Paperback)
Robin D.G. Kelley, Earl Lewis
R600 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R92 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians. This first volume begins with the story of Africa and its origins, then presents an overview of the Atlantic slave trade, and the forced migration and enslavement of between ten and twenty million people. It covers the Haitian Revolution, which ended victoriously in 1804 with the birth of the first independent black nation in the New World, and slave rebellions and resistance in the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. There are vivid accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction years, the backlash of the notorious "Jim Crow" laws and mob lynchings, and the founding of key black educational institutions, such as Howard University in Washington, D.C. Here is a panoramic view of African-American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans have experienced it.

Invisible Men - A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover): Flores A Forbes Invisible Men - A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)
Flores A Forbes; Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
R584 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R142 (24%) Out of stock

Winner of the 2017 American Book Award Flores Forbes, a former leader in the Black Panther Party, has been free from prison for twenty-five years. Unfortunately that makes him part of a group of black men without constituency who are all but invisible in society. That is, the "invisible" group of black men in America who have served their time and not gone back to prison. Today the recidivism rate is around 65%. Almost never mentioned in the media or scholarly attention is the plight of the 35% who don't go back, especially black men. A few of them are hiding in Ivy League schools' prison education programs they don't want to be known but most of them are recruited by the one billion dollar industry reentry employee programs that allow the US to profit from their life and labor. Whereas, African Americans consist of only 12% of the population in the US, black males are incarcerated at much higher rates. The chances of these formerly convicted men to succeed after prison to matriculate as leading members of society are increasingly slim. The doors are closed to them. Invisible Men is a book that will crack the code on the stigma of incarceration. When Flores Forbes was released from prison, he made a plan to re-invent himself but found it impossible. His involvement in a plan to kill a witness who was testifying against Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, had led to his incarceration. While in prison he earned a college degree using a Pell Grant, with hope this would get him on the right track and a chance at a normal life. He was released but that's where his story and most invisible men's stories begin. This book will weave Flores' knowledge, wisdom, and experience with incarceration, sentencing reform, judicial inequity, hiding and re-entry into society, and the issue of increasing struggles and inequality for formerly incarcerated men into a collection of poignant essays that finally give invisible men a voice and face in society.

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 - A University of Illinois Press Anthology (Paperback): Laurie Matheson Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 - A University of Illinois Press Anthology (Paperback)
Laurie Matheson; Introduction by Tammy L. Kernodle; Contributions by Nelson George, Wayne Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, …
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and explain Hamilton's massive success as part of the "tanning" of American culture that began when Black music entered the mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 collects groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its place in American music history. Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes, Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie Tucker

The Meaning of Freedom - And Other Difficult Dialogues (Paperback): Angela Y. Davis The Meaning of Freedom - And Other Difficult Dialogues (Paperback)
Angela Y. Davis; Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley
R369 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Save R51 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States. With her characteristic brilliance, historical insight, and penetrating analysis, Davis addresses examples of institutional injustice and explores the radical notion of freedom as a collective striving for real democracy - not something granted or guaranteed through laws, proclamations, or policies, but something that grows from a participatory social process that demands new ways of thinking and being. "The speeches gathered together here are timely and timeless," writes Robin D.G. Kelley in the foreword, "they embody Angela Davis' uniquely radical vision of the society we need to build, and the path to get there." The Meaning of Freedom articulates a bold vision of the society we need to build and the path to get there. This is her only book of speeches. "Davis' arguments for justice are formidable...The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied."--The New York Times "One of America's last truly fearless public intellectuals." --Cynthia McKinney, former US Congresswoman "Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice." --Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Women's Studies, Hamilton College "Angela Davis deserves credit, not just for the dignity and courage with which she has lived her life, but also for raising important critiques of a for-profit penitentiary system decades before those arguments gained purchase in the mainstream." --Thomas Chatterton Williams, SFGate "Angela Davis's revolutionary spirit is still strong. Still with us, thank goodness!" --Virginian-Pilot "Long before 'race/gender' became the obligatory injunction it is now, Angela Davis was developing an analytical framework that brought all of these factors into play. For readers who only see Angela Davis as a public icon ...meet the real Angela Davis: perhaps the leading public intellectual of our era." --Robin D. G. Kelley author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original "There was a time in America when to call a person an 'abolitionist' was the ultimate epithet. It evoked scorn in the North and outrage in the South. Yet they were the harbingers of things to come. They were on the right side of history. Prof. Angela Y. Davis stands in that proud, radical tradition." --Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A. "Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis, open, relentless, and on time!" --June Jordan "Political activist, scholar, and author Angela Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the U.S. in her book, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues." --Travis Smiley Radio Angela Y. Davis is professor emerita at the University of California and author of eight books. She is a much sought after public speaker and an internationally known advocate for social justice. Robin D.G. Kelley is the author of numerous books and a professor at the University of Southern California.

C.L.R. James - The Artist as Revolutionary (Paperback): Lawrence Ware, Paul Buhle C.L.R. James - The Artist as Revolutionary (Paperback)
Lawrence Ware, Paul Buhle; Paul Buhle; Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

C.L.R. James was a protean 20th century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and scholar who was active in US and UK radical movements; a novelist, playwright, and critic; and one of the premier writers on cricket and sports. This intellectual portrait was written by James's longtime interlocutor and comrade Paul Buhle, and initially published in 1988. With a new final chapter, updated bibliography, a new foreword by historian Robin D.G. Kelley and a new afterword by philosopher Lawrence Ware, this long-awaited revised edition of a classic biography will be a key resource in the James revival.

Ben Fletcher - The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Peter Cole Ben Fletcher - The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Peter Cole; Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
R589 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R109 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Border and Rule - Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Paperback): Harsha Walia Border and Rule - Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Paperback)
Harsha Walia; Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley; Afterword by Nick Estes
R574 R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Save R100 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, ruling class, and racist nationalist rule. Ambitious in scope and internationalist in orientation, Border and Rule breaks through American exceptionalist and liberal responses to the migration crisis and cogently maps the lucrative connections between state violence, capitalism, and right-wing nationalism around the world. Illuminating the brutal mechanics of state formation, Walia exposes US border policy as a product of violent territorial expansion, settler-colonialism, enslavement, and gendered racial exclusion. Further, she compellingly details how Fortress Europe and White Australia are using immigration diplomacy and externalized borders to maintain a colonial present, how temporary labor migration in the Arab Gulf states and Canada is central to citizenship regulation and labor control, and how far-right nationalism is escalating deadly violence in the US, Israel, India, the Philippines, Brazil, and across Europe, while producing a disaster of statelessness for millions elsewhere. A must-read in these difficult times of war, inequality, climate change, and global health crisis, Border and Rule is a clarion call for revolution. The book includes a foreword from renowned scholar Robin D. G. Kelley and an afterword from acclaimed activist-academic Nick Estes.

Black, Brown, & Beige - Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (Paperback): Franklin Rosemont, Robin D.G. Kelley Black, Brown, & Beige - Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (Paperback)
Franklin Rosemont, Robin D.G. Kelley
R1,018 Discovery Miles 10 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Surrealism as a movement has always resisted the efforts of critics to confine it to any static definition--surrealists themselves have always preferred to speak of it in terms of dynamics, dialectics, goals, and struggles. Accordingly, surrealist groups have always encouraged and exemplified the widest diversity--from its start the movement was emphatically opposed to racism and colonialism, and it embraced thinkers from every race and nation.

Yet in the vast critical literature on surrealism, all but a few black poets have been invisible. Academic histories and anthologies typically, but very wrongly, persist in conveying surrealism as an all-white movement, like other "artistic schools" of European origin. In glaring contrast, the many publications of the international surrealist movement have regularly featured texts and reproductions of works by comrades from Martinique, Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico, South America, the United States, and other lands. Some of these publications are readily available to researchers; others are not, and a few fall outside academia's narrow definition of surrealism.

This collection is the first to document the extensive participation of people of African descent in the international surrealist movement over the past seventy-five years. Editors Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley aim to introduce readers to the black, brown, and beige surrealists of the world--to provide sketches of their overlooked lives and deeds as well as their important place in history, especially the history of surrealism.

To Make Our World Anew: Volume II (Paperback): Robin D.G. Kelley, Earl Lewis To Make Our World Anew: Volume II (Paperback)
Robin D.G. Kelley, Earl Lewis
R626 R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Save R90 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians. This second volume covers the crucial post-Reconstruction years and traces the migration of blacks to the major cities. It describes the remarkable birth of the Harlem Renaissance, the hardships of the Great Depression, and the service of African Americans in World War II. Readers witness the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and '60s and finally, the emergence of today's black middle class. Here is a panoramic view of African-American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans have experienced it.

Policing The Planet - Why The Policing Crisis Led To Black Lives Matter (Paperback): Christina Heatherton, Jordan T Camp Policing The Planet - Why The Policing Crisis Led To Black Lives Matter (Paperback)
Christina Heatherton, Jordan T Camp; Contributions by Robin D.G. Kelley, Anjali Kamat, Arun Kundnani, …
R511 R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Save R45 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton. It's a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over - to deadly effect.

With contributions from #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Patrisse Cullors, Ferguson activist and Law Professor Justin Hansford, Director of New York-based Communities United for Police Reform Joo-Hyun Kang, poet Martin Espada, and journalist Anjali Kamat, as well as articles from leading scholars Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D. G. Kelley, Naomi Murakawa, Vijay Prashad, and more, Policing the Planet describes ongoing struggles from New York to Baltimore to Los Angeles, London, San Juan, San Salvador, and beyond.

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 - A University of Illinois Press Anthology (Hardcover): Laurie Matheson Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 - A University of Illinois Press Anthology (Hardcover)
Laurie Matheson; Introduction by Tammy L. Kernodle; Contributions by Nelson George, Wayne Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, …
R2,592 Discovery Miles 25 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and explain Hamilton's massive success as part of the "tanning" of American culture that began when Black music entered the mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 collects groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its place in American music history. Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes, Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie Tucker

No Fascist USA! - The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements (Paperback): Hilary Moore, James... No Fascist USA! - The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements (Paperback)
Hilary Moore, James Tracy; Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
R461 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R77 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, laying the groundwork for today's anti-fascist/anti-racist movements. "Smash fascism! Read this book!"-Tom Morello, songwriter and guitarist with Rage Against the Machine "Studying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of deconstructing the weapon of white supremacy from the inside out. Thank you Hilary and James for the precision of this analysis, and the true north of this star."-adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy In June 1977, a group of white anti-racist activists received an alarming letter from an inmate at a New York state prison calling for help to fight the Ku Klux Klan's efforts to recruit prison staff and influence the people incarcerated. Their response was to form the first chapter of what would eventually become a powerful, nationwide grassroots network, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, dedicated to countering the rise of the KKK and other far-right white nationalist groups. No Fascist USA! tells the story of that network, whose efforts throughout the 1980s-which included exposing white supremacists in public office, confronting neo-Nazis in street protests, supporting movements for self-determination, and engagement with the underground punk scene-laid the groundwork for many anti-racist efforts to emerge since. Featuring original research, interviews with former members, and a trove of graphic materials, their story offers battle-tested lessons for those on the frontlines of social justice work today. Praise for No Fascist USA!: "Hilary Moore and James Tracy have written a magnificent book that not only corrects the record but helps explain the mercurial rise of white supremacist organizations in the 1970s, how the Klan was (temporarily) defeated, and why this period has been largely ignored. No Fascist USA! radically shifts our perspective, challenging the prevailing wisdom that racist terrorism rises in response to economic downturns, white downward mobility, or in a vacuum created by progressive alternatives. I love this book."-Robin D.G. Kelley, from the foreword "No Fascist USA! is not only timely, but also essential in the present period of accelerated white supremacist activity and anti-racist organizing to combat it. In telling the story of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, the authors, without romanticizing or condemning, draw important lessons from the fifteen-year history of the group."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment "With its savvy blend of youth culture and street confrontation, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee tried to stop Trumpism before Trump. They confronted the rise of white nationalism in prisons, workplaces, and music scenes when precious few paid attention to it . . . Hilary Moore and James Tracy have gifted us with an urgent read."-Dan Berger, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era "James Tracy and Hilary Moore deliver a searing, bold new work that examines another painful and complicated chapter in American race relations. In an eye-opening account, They are able to connect the dots of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, a band of contemporary predominantly white activists, and its efforts to expose white supremacist organizations. With a fresh eye and new research, their book uncovers with stunning precision how these groups remain active and exposes some of their unlikely alliances."-Laurens Grant, filmmaker, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and Freedom Riders "We learned from history. You can too!"-Terry Bisson, author of Fire on the Mountain and former member of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee "This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the roots of what happened in Charlottesville, and the burgeoning white nationalist membership lists in the U.S. today. We cannot possibly take on the challenges we face without learning from the past. This book is a necessary and long overdue contribution to inform the way forward."-Carla F. Wallace, co-founder, Showing Up for Racial Justice "I've waited thirty years for this book! Our emergency hearts have always driven uprisings to stop white terrorism, but it always takes more than black-bloc tactics in the streets to stop fascists. No Fascist USA! firmly connects today's militant anti-fascist street-fighting movements with important living radical histories to disrupt the cycles that keep the spectre of fascism alive in the modern era. The struggles faced by the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee continue today in our difficult arc towards collective liberation."-scott crow, author of Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense

Imagining Home - Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora (Paperback): Robin D.G. Kelley, Sidney J. Lemelle Imagining Home - Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora (Paperback)
Robin D.G. Kelley, Sidney J. Lemelle; Contributions by Ann Seidman, Barbara Bair, Barbara Harlow, …
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This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its "New World" descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics, Imagining Home offers a fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements. A critical part of the book's overall project is an examination of the legal, educational and political institutions and structures of domination over Africa and the African diaspora. Class and gender are placed at center stage alongside race in the exploration of how the discourses and practices of Pan-Africanism have been shaped. Other issues raised include the myriad ways in which grassroots religious and cultural movements informed Pan-Africanist political organizations; the role of African, African-American and Caribbean intellectuals in the formation of Pan-African thought-including W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James and Adelaide Casely Hayford; the historical, ideological and institutional connections between African-Americans and South Africans; and the problems and prospects of Pan-Africanism as an emancipatory strategy for black people throughout the Atlantic.

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