Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook : A James Boggs Reader.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Making of a Revolutionist -- The Man Who Would Not Be King -- Southern Roots: Making a Way out of No Way -- Urban Groundings: Coming to Detroit -- Black Radicalism in the Big City -- Correspondence and Grace Lee Boggs -- The American Revolution -- Black Power and Beyond -- The National Organization for an American Revolution (NOAR) -- Impact and Legacy -- Part I: Correspondence Newspaper -- Introduction to Part I -- Talent for Sale (1954) -- Viewing Negro History Week (1954) -- Disproving a Myth -- Negro Challenge (1954) -- In Constant Struggle -- Have to Choose -- The Paper and a New Society (1954) -- Basis for a New Society -- Your Strength Is Needed -- On Your Terms -- Sensitivity (1955) -- The Danger Stage -- Negro Knows More -- The Stage That We Have Reached (1955) -- Pressure on the CIO -- An Independent Role -- Not Asking -- A Report on the March on Washington (1957) -- Rev. Martin Luther King -- Who Is for Law and Order? (1957) -- Who Is for Civilization? (1957) -- Who Is a Citizen? -- The Weakest Link in the Struggle (1958) -- Men Pinpoint Blame -- Safeguarding Your Child's Future (1959) -- Land of the Free and the Hungry (1960) -- The Winds Have Already Changed (1960) -- What Makes Americans Run (1960) -- New Orleans Faces We Still Haven't Seen (1960) -- The First Giant Step (1961) -- A Visit From the FBI (1961) -- FBI Asks Me about Rob Williams (1961) -- Foreword to "Monroe, North Carolina . . . Turning Point in American History" (1962) -- Part II: The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook -- Introduction to Part II -- Editors' Foreword to The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook -- Introduction -- 1. The Rise and Fall of the Union -- 2. The Challenge of Automation -- 3. The Classless Society.

4. The Outsiders -- 5. Peace and War -- 6. The Decline of the United States Empire -- 7. Rebels with a Cause -- 8. The American Revolution -- Part III: Black Power: Promise, Pitfalls, and Legacies -- Introduction to Part III -- Liberalism, Marxism, and Black Political Power (1963) -- The City Is the Black Man's Land (1966) -- Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come (1967) -- Culture and Black Power (1967) -- The Myth and Irrationality of Black Capitalism (1969) -- Manifesto for a Black Revolutionary Party (1969) -- Introduction to the Fifth Printing -- Preamble -- 1. Racism and Revolution -- 2. Who Will Make the Revolution? -- 3. How Black Power Will Revolutionize America -- 4. The Black Revolutionary Party -- Conclusion -- The American Revolution: Putting Politics in Command (1970) -- Beyond Rebellion (1972) -- Beyond Nationalism (1973) -- Think Dialectically, Not Biologically (1974) -- The Struggle between Two Roads -- Learning from Social Practice -- Toward a New Concept of Citizenship (1976) -- Bureaucracy as Usual -- What Are Our Human Needs? -- What Kind of Technology Do We Need? -- We Can't Go Home Again -- Changing Ourselves First -- The Next Development in Education (1977) -- Questions -- Liberation or Revolution? (1978) -- How Movements Have Developed -- The Black Movement No Longer Exists -- New and More Complex Questions -- Liberation Groups Are Pressure Groups -- Where Do Ideas Come From? -- No Liberation from Struggles and Decisions -- Independence, Liberation, Revolution -- What Does Revolution Mean for Us in America? -- The Choice between Two Roads -- A New and Enlarged View of Citizenship -- The Challenge Facing Afro-Americans in the 1980s (1979) -- What Do We Mean by Freedom? -- Toward a New Social Order -- The Choice between the Two Roads.

Part IV: Community Building and Grassroots Leadership in Post-Industrial Detroit -- Introduction to Part IV -- Letter to Friends and Comrades (1984) -- Dear Friend and Comrade: -- Going Where We Have Never Been: Creating New Communities for Our Future (1986) -- Community Building: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (1987) -- Rebuilding Detroit: An Alternative to Casino Gambling (1988) -- We Must Stop Thinking Like Victims (1990) -- What Does It Mean to Be a Father? (1990) -- Why Are We at War with One Another? (1990) -- A "No" Vote Will Say Detroiters Want to Save What's Left (1991) -- How Will We Make a Living? (1991) -- Why Are Our Children So Bored? (1991) -- What Can We Be That Our Children Can See? (1991) -- Time to Act Like Citizens, Not Subjects (1992) -- What Time Is It in Detroit and the World? (1992) -- We Can Run But We Can't Hide (1993) -- Beyond Civil Rights (1993) -- Why Detroit Summer? (1993) -- Afterword by Grace Lee Boggs -- Notes -- Index -- Backcover.

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