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1 online resource |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Socialist Party -- Eugene V. Debs -- Introduction -- The Negro in the Class Struggle -- The Negro and His Nemesis -- A.M. Simons -- Introduction -- The Negro Problem -- I.M. Rubinow -- Introduction -- Economic Aspects of the Negro Problem (Part I) -- Economic Aspects of the Negro Problem (Part II) -- Kate Richards O'Hare -- Introduction -- Nigger Equality -- Hubert Harrison -- Introduction -- The Negro and Socialism, Part V: Summary and Conclusion -- Socialism and the Negro -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Introduction -- Socialism and the Negro Problem -- The New Review -- Introduction -- The Status of the Negro in the United States -- "Democracy" and Negro Segregation -- The Class Struggle -- Introduction -- The Negro Problem -- A Labor Problem -- pt. II The Industrial Workers of the World -- Ben Fletcher -- Introduction -- The Negro and Organized Labor -- IWW Documents -- Introduction -- "Nigger" Lovers -- A Class, Not a Race Problem |
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Note continued: Colored Workers of America: Why You Should Join the IWW -- Justice for the Negro -- How He Can Get It -- To Colored Workers: Attention! -- pt. III The Messenger -- Editorials -- Introduction -- Bolshevism and World Democracy -- The Right and Left Wing Interpreted -- The Cause of and Remedy for Race Riots -- The International Debacle -- The General Strike and Lawlessness -- Lenin -- W.A. Domingo -- Introduction -- Socialism Imperilled, or the Negro -- A Potential Menace to American Radicalism -- Socialism The Negro's Hope -- Did Bolshevism Stop Race Riots in Russia? -- Will Bolshevism Free America? -- pt. IV The Crusader -- Cyril V. Briggs -- Introduction -- Deporting Aliens and Negroes -- Out for Negro Tools -- Make Their Cause Your Own -- Bolshevism and Race Prejudice -- Bolshevism's Menace: To Whom and to What? -- At the Crossroads (Part I) -- At the Crossroads (Part II) -- Trend of World Events in Their Relation to the Negro |
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Note continued: "Africa for the Africans" -- The Salvation of the Negro -- Africa and the White Proletariat -- The Acid Test of White Friendship -- Program of the A.B.B. -- Offered for the Guidance of the Negro Race in the Great Liberation Struggle -- pt. V The Communist Party -- Official Documents -- Introduction -- Theses of the Fourth Comintern Congress on the Negro Question -- Black Belt Thesis -- John Reed -- Introduction -- The Negro Question in America -- Claude McKay -- Introduction -- Socialism and the Negro -- How Black Sees Green and Red -- Letter to the Editor of the Crisis -- Robert Minor -- Introduction -- The Black Ten Millions -- The Black Ten Millions (Part II) -- Lovett Fort-Whiteman -- Introduction -- The Negro in Politics -- The Negro and American Race Prejudice -- The Negro in America -- Jeannette Pearl -- Introduction -- Negro Women Workers -- William F. Dunne -- Introduction -- Negroes in American Industry (Part I) |
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Note continued: Negroes in American Industry (Part II) -- The Negroes as an Oppressed People -- Jay Lovestone -- Introduction -- The Great Negro Migration -- William Z. Foster -- Introduction -- The Workers (Communist) Party in the South |
| Summary |
As Black oppression moves again to the forefront of American public life, the history of radical approaches to combating racism has acquired renewed relevance. Collecting, for the first time, source materials from a diverse array of writers and organizers, this reader provides a new perspective on the complex history of revolutionary debates about fighting anti-Black racism. Contextual material from the editor places each contribution in its historical and political setting, making this volume ideal for both scholars and activists. "Paul Heideman's book reconstructs for us the long flowering of anti-racist thought and organizing on the American Left and the central role played by Black Socialists in advancing a theory and practice of human liberation. Class struggle and anti-racism are two sides of the same coin in this powerful collection. At a time when the emancipation of oppressed and working-class people remain goals of progressives everywhere, Heideman's book provides us a map to a past that can help us get free."--Bill V. Mullen, Professor of American Studies, Purdue University "Should white workers pursue racial supremacy to make America great again' Ignore race by practicing color-blindness and dwelling on labor and economic issues alone' Or challenge oppression, bigotry, and exploitation in all their forms, wherever and whenever they appear' These strategies may sound like ones from our own time, but they were live options for the left a century ago. We are all in Paul Heideman's debt for compilingClass Struggle and the Color Line, a set of rare original sources that remind us of this: In the absence of sound social theory, disgusting racism can be passed off as populist rebellion. Don't let it happen again."-Christopher Phelps, co-author, Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War Paul Heideman is a PhD student in Sociology at New York University and is a frequent contributor to Jacobin and the Historical Materialism Conference |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-414) and index |
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Socialism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
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Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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Racism
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Socialism
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United States
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History
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Heideman, Paul M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781608461936 |
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1608461939 |
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