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Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class

by Robin D. G. Kelley

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Quarterly Black ReviewIn a prose that is clear, full of real-world illustrations and sometimes outright funny, [Kelley] does something increasingly rare: he maintains political commitment while appreciating various kinds of aesthetic, social and political differences (rebel, rebel).

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ChoiceA wide-ranging, challenging book that deserves attention by anyone seriously interested in African American culture.

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Darlene Clark Hineauthor of The State of Afro-American History: Past, PresentandFutureRace Rebels is African American history at its challenging and transformative best. Robin D. G. Kelley's exquisite interweaving of cultural and political dynamics illuminates obscure and unseen sites of Black working-class resistance throughout the 20th century. This is an extraordinary and provocative book.

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Cornel WestRobin Kelley is the preeminent historian of black popular culture writing today.

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Monthly Review

It is not too much or too early to call Robin D. G. Kelley, barely thirty years old, a leading black historian of the age. But it may not be enough...His work, seen in a certain light, is less about the past than the future...To listen carefully to the voices of discontent is not our only mission, but it may curiously be our most difficult. Kelley helps us open our eyes (and our heart) to the task.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-338) and index.

About the Author

Robin D. G. Kelley is professor of history and Africana studies at New York University and author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990).

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword by George Lipsitz

Introduction: Writing Black Working-Class History from Way, Way Below

PART I. "WE WEAR THE MASK": HIDDEN HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE

1. Shiftless of the World Unite!

2. "We Are Not What We Seem": The Politics and Pleasures of Community

3. Congested Terrain: Resistance on Public Transportation

4. Birmingham's Untouchables: The Black Poor in the Age of Civil Rights

PART II. TO BE RED AND BLACK

5. "Afric's Sons With Banner Red": African American Communists and the Politics of Culture, 1919-1934

6. "This Ain't Ethiopia, But It'll Do": African Americans and the Spanish Civil War

PART III. REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE?

7. The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics During World War II

8. Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: "Gangsta Rap" and Postindustrial Los Angeles

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Product Details

ISBN:
9780684826394
Subtitle:
Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
Foreword:
Lipsitz, George
Author:
Kelley, Robin D. G.
Author:
Kelley, Robin
Author:
Lipsitz, George
Publisher:
Free Press
Location:
New York :
Subject:
History
Subject:
African American Studies - History
Subject:
United States - General
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Labor and laboring classes
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Radicalism
Subject:
Working class
Subject:
Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor
Subject:
African Americans - History - 1877-1964
Subject:
African Americans - History - 1964-
Edition Description:
B102
Series Volume:
v. 3
Publication Date:
June 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
9.07x6.08x.93 in. 1.24 lbs.

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