Synopses & Reviews
In Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the Twenty-First Century, leading African-American scholars and activists discuss the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality.
This broad, inclusive anthology makes a vital contribution to our understanding of racism and how it can be overcome. Contributors include Abdul Akalimat on "e-black studies;" Dan Aldridge on spirituality and activism; Amiri Baraka on wisdom and cultural expression; Cathy Cohen on the continuing impact of AIDS in the African-American community; Ron Daniels on race and globalization; Angela Davis on the anti-enforcement violence movement; Joy James on black feminism; Johnita Scott on the history of the reparations movement in the U.S.; Charles Simmons on environmental justice; and Alice Tait on the media.
Herb Boyd is national editor of The Black World Today, a popular internet news publication. He is also the author of Autobiography of a People; Brotherman: The Odyseey of Black Men in America; Black Panthers for Beginners; and African History for Beginners. He teaches at the College of New Rochelle.
Synopsis
Leading scholars and activists discuss the state of black America and prospects for achieving full equality.
Table of Contents
Racism : looking forward, looking back /Ron Daniels --Still at the periphery : the economic status of African Americans /Julianne Malvaeux --Blacks in the labor movement /Interview with Bill Fletcher by Herb Boyd --Don't dump on us : the environmental justice movement /Charles Simmons --Masked racism : reflections on the prison industrial complex /Angela Y. Davis --Race and gender /Bell Hooks --Resting in gardens, battling in deserts : black women's activism /Joy James --Riffin' on music and language /Amiri Baraka --How ya' like me now? Rap and hip hop come of age /Yvonne Bynoe --Mixed messages : race and the media /Alice Tait and Todd Burroughs --Black radicalism, reinvented : the promise of the Black Radical Congress /Jennifer Hamer and Clarence Lang --Towards the Black Radical Congress /Manning Marable --The modern struggle for reparations /Johnita Scott-Obadele --In the fight of our lives : notes on AIDS in the black community /Phil Wilson --George Bush's global agenda : bad news for Africa /Salih Booker --Praying for a revolution /Paul Scott.