Alex Zamalin

Struggle on Their Minds

The Political Thought of African American Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

Struggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challengedâ and strengthenedâ by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 236mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780231181105
• ISBN-10: 0231181108
• Artikelnr.: 46879341

Autorenporträt

Alex Zamalin is assistant professor of political science and director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit Mercy. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (2015); Antiracism: An Introduction (2019); and Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbia, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance
1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision
2. Ida B. Wells, the Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing
3. Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America
4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral
State
Conclusion: The Future of Resistance
Notes
Bibliography
Index