Paul Gomberg

Anti-Racism as Communism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the United States there have been brilliant examples of anti-racist struggle-black soldiers in the Civil War, coal miners of Alabama, and especially the anti-racist working-class struggles led by the Communist Party. Yet racism persists: Jim Crow replaced racial slavery, and mass incarceration has replaced Jim Crow. Why? Paul Gomberg argues that racism is functional for capitalism, supplying low-wage, vulnerable labor and driving down conditions for all workers. How can anti-racists put an end to racist society? Gomberg argues for race-centered Marxism: anti-racism must lead working-class struggle, but racism will end only in a communist society that creates opportunity for all.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350257986
• Artikelnr.: 69182816

Autorenporträt

Paul Gomberg retired as Professor of Philosophy at Chicago State University, where he taught for twenty-nine years. He is currently Research Associate in the Philosophy department at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice (2007) and has participated in fifty years of anti-racist activism.

Inhaltsangabe

A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF RACE IN ENGLISH NORTH AMERICA
CHAPTER 2: RACE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER 3: BLACK WORKERS IN SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE: FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO
WW2
CHAPTER 4: RACE AND ANTI-RACISM IN INDUSTRY: COAL MINERS 1870-1921
CHAPTER 5: RACE AND ANTI-RACISM IN INDUSTRY: THE COMMUNIST PARTY FIGHTS
RACISM
CHAPTER 6: THE CREATION OF TODAY'S RACISM
CHAPTER 7: IS RACISM INTERRACIAL?
CHAPTER 8: ALIENATING RACE AND FIGHTING RACISM
CHAPTER 9: RACE-CENTERED MARXISM
CHAPTER 10: A SOCIETY WITHOUT RACE
CHAPTER 11: REASONABLE HOPE?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES