Struggle on Their Minds : The Political Thought of African American Resistance.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780231543477
- Walker, David,-d1785-1830-Political and social views
- Douglass, Frederick,-1818-1895-Political and social views
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.,-1862-1931-Political and social views
- Newton, Huey P.-Political and social views
- Davis, Angela Y.-(Angela Yvonne),-1944--Political and social views
- African Americans-Politics and government
- African Americans-Political activity-History
- African American intellectuals
- African Americans-Intellectual life
- lavery-United States-Influence
- 323.1196073
- E185.615 .Z363 2017
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance -- 1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision -- 2. Ida B. Wells, the Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing -- 3. Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America -- 4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral State -- Conclusion: The Future of Resistance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Struggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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