Glen Ford

The Black Agenda (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Black politics is key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. And over the past 40 years no other commentator has been as deeply insightful about the paradoxes and personalities of Black American public life as the journalist and radio host Glen Ford.

In this stunning overview, Ford draws on his work for Black Agenda Report, one of the most incisive and perceptive publications of the progressive left, to examine the often-competing struggles for class power and identity in the Black movement. In a survey that stretches from the racist assault on Black people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, through the engineered bankruptcy of Detroit, to the false promise of the Obama presidency, Ford casts a caustic eye on the empty posturing and corruption of the Democratic Party leadership. This, he insists, depends for electoral success on a Black constituency whilst co-opting a section of its leadership in a perpetual selling out of working people's interests.

Profiling along the way storied Black leaders such as Martin Luther King, Malcom X and James Brown (for whom Ford once worked), The Black Agenda looks, too, beyond American shores at conflicts in Libya, the Congo and the Middle East showing how these are imbricated with racism at home. Ford concludes with a discussion of the Black Lives Matter movement, setting out both its potentialities and pitfalls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OR Books
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781682192931
• Artikelnr.: 62829151

Autorenporträt

Glen Ford is executive director of Black Agenda Report and was previously co-founder of BlackCommentator.com. He has extensive experience in radio and television, where he launched influential programming such as America's Black Forum, the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television, and Rap It Up. Ford was national political columnist for Encore American & Worldwide News magazine and is the author of The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
PART I?Thanksgiving
No More American Thanksgivings (November 27, 2003)
PART II?Bush and Katrina
They Have Reached Too Far: Bush's Road Leads to Ruin for Himself and His
Pirates (March 20, 2003)
No Black Plan for the Cities, Despite the Lessons of Katrina (May 9, 2007)
The Age of Katrina?Not Obama (August 26, 2008)
PART III?DLC and Black Misleadership
Katrina, War, Impeachment, and the Black Gulag (August 22, 2007)
The ?Obscene Fourteen? House NSA Negroes (July 13, 2013)
Detroit Is the Nexus of the New American Apartheid (September 18, 2013)
The Siege of Detroit: A War of Black Urban Renewal (July 23, 2014)
The Democratic Road to Black Ruin (March 23, 2016)
The Validity and Usefulness of the Term ?Black Misleadership Class?
(January 4, 2018)
PART IV?Duopoly
Both Major U.S. Parties Are Plagues on Humanity (July 1, 2015)
Vector of Fear: Blacks and the Democratic Party (February 3, 2016)
Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party (February 11, 2016)
Hillary Stuffs Entire U.S. Ruling Class Into Her Big, Nasty Tent (August
10, 2016)
Clinton's Basket of Deplorables (September 14, 2016)
Fascism with a Democratic Party Face (November 30, 2016)
Facebook Is Not Your Friend (October 17, 2018)
PART V?Obama
The Great Black Hajj of 2009 (January 27, 2009)
Obama's Emerging Legacy: Wars, Bankers, and For-Profit Healthcare (June 24,
2009)
What Part of ?We Needs Jobs? Does Obama Not Get? (December 22, 2009)
First Black Presidency Has Driven Many African Americans Insane (July 6,
2010)
Gridlock Is a Blessing: To Hell with Obama and his Van Joneses (November
23, 2011)
Why Barack Obama Is the More Effective Evil (March 2012)
Fletcherism and Fakery: Guarding Obama's Left Flank (August 22 2012)
What Obama Has Wrought (September 5, 2012)
Angela Davis Has Lost Her Mind Over Obama (March 28, 2012)
Black America More Pro-War Than Ever (September 18, 2013)
Black Madness Under Obama: African Americans More Pro-NSA, Anti-Snowden
Than Whites and Hispanics (January 22, 2014)
Gridlock (Once Again) Rescues Social Security from Obama and the GOP
(February 26, 2014)
Obama's Last Presidential Lies (January 1 2017)
The Obama Legacy (January 19, 2017)
PART VI?Wars in Africa and the Middle East
The Shrinking American Empire (July 8, 2009)
Race and Arab Nationalism in Libya (March 9, 2011)
Western Mercenaries and Corporations Pouring Into Libya (November 1, 2011)
A Second Wave of Genocide Looms in the Congo, with Susan Rice on Point
(November 28, 2012)
Obama's Humiliating Defeat (September 11, 2013)
Rwanda's Formula For Success: Murder Your Neighbors and Steal Their Wealth
(March 26 2014)
There Is No U.S. War Against ISIS; Instead, Obama Is Protecting His
?Assets? (June 2 2016)
Yes, Obama and Clinton Created ISIS?Too Bad Trump Can't Explain How It
Happened (August 17, 2016)
PART VII?Foundational Leaders: James Brown, Malcolm X, and MLK
James Brown: The Man Who Named a People (January 10, 2007)
Dragging Malcolm X to Obamaland (April 27, 2011)
MLK and Obama: Two Diametrically Opposed Legacies (April 5, 2017)
PART VIII?Today's Leaders: Trump, Biden, Sanders
None of Them Has Ever Been My President (November 16, 2016)
Criminal Nation: Obama and Trump Should Both Be Jailed for War Crimes (May
10, 2017)
Bernie Sanders Can't Shake His Imperial Piggishness (September 28, 2017)
How Donald Trump Rode in on ?Dark Money? (January 31, 2018)
Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies (April 3, 2019)
Sanders vs. the Endless Austerity Regime (July 10, 2019)
The Issue-Less Impeachment: The Corporate Democrats Stand for Nothing, So
They Impeach for Nothing (December 11, 2019)
The Corporate Democrats' (and Alicia Garza's) Get-Sanders Slanders (October
2, 2019)
Trump Is a Criminal but the Democrats Belong to the Same Mafia (January 9,
2020)
Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom
(January 23, 2020)
Fear Pervades Black Politics, and Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression
(March 4, 2020)
PART IX?COVID-19 and Lockdown
Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder by Corporate Duopoly (March 25,
2020)
Resistance Growing to COVID-Capitalism (April 8, 2020)
Indict and Punish the Perpetrators of COVID Mass Death (May 20, 2020)
PART X?Black Lives Matter, Reparations, and a New, Authentic Left
The Black-Latino Future: Finding a Way to Solidarity (October 25, 2006)
Occupy Wall Street Joins Occupy the Dream: Is it Co-optation, or Growing
the Movement? (January 11, 2012)
#BlackLivesMatter and the Democrats: How Disruption Can Lead to
Collaboration (August 12, 2015)
#BlackLivesMatter Performs a Self-Humiliation at Hillary Clinton's Hands
(August 19, 2015)
#BlackLivesMatter Hurts Democrats' Feelings (September 2, 2015)
Garza vs. Mckesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will
Liberate Black People (October 30, 2015)
?Black Lives Matter? Groups Hoping for a Big Payday (November 18, 2015)
Nationalizing the Banks Is a Popular Demand, So Let's Demand It (June 6,
2018)
Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives
(June 5, 2019)
We Are Already Late to the Great Black Reparations Debate (June 25, 2019)
Community Control of the Police?And a Whole Lot More (June 17, 2020)