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Freedom in Laughter
(July 2020)
Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement
Malcolm Frierson - Author
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Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin' circuit to the mainstream.
In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Frierson moves comedy from the margins to the center of the American Civil Rights Movement. Freedom in Laughter reveals how stand-up comedians Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby used their increasing mainstream success to advance pol...(Read More) |
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Culture and Tactics
(October 2019)
Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice
Robert F. Carley - Author
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Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.
While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Carley argues by contrast that tactics are, above all, what social movements do. They are not mere means to an end so much as they are a public form...(Read More) |
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The Politics of People
(September 2019)
Protest Cultures in China
Shih-Diing Liu - Author
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Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.
Since the 1989 Tiananmen Square occupation, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau have experienced an increase in and persistence of mass gatherings, demonstrations, and blockades staged as a means of protesting the ways in which people are governed. In this book, Shih-Diing Liu...(Read More) |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized
(August 2019)
Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era
Errol A. Henderson - Author
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Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through '70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.
The study of the impact of Black Power Movement (BPM) activists and organizations in the 1960s through '70s has largely been confined to their role as proponents of social change; but they were also theorists of the change they ...(Read More) |
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Speaking Face to Face
(June 2019)
The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones
Pedro J. DiPietro - Editor
Jennifer McWeeny - Editor
Shireen Roshanravan - Editor
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The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.
Speaking Face to Face provides an unprecedented, in-depth look at the feminist philosophy and practice of the renowned Argentinian-born scholar-activist María Lugones. Informed by her identification as “nondiasporic Latina” and US Woman of Color, as well as her long-term commitment...(Read More) |
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Organizing for Transgender Rights
(March 2019)
Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement
Anthony J. Nownes - Author
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Illuminates transgender activists’ successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.
In recent years, gender-variant people—including those we now call transgender people—have won public policy victories that had previously seemed unwinnable: the American Psychiatric Association replaced the term “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria” in the Diagnosti...(Read More) |
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Black Women in Politics
(September 2018)
Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery - Editor
Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd - Editor
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Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.
This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions—citizenship, power, and justice—that are foundational to intersectionality theory and politics as developed by Black women and other women of color. By extending beyond particular time periods, locations, and singular definitions of politics, Black Women in Politics...(Read More) |
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A Turbulent South Africa
(March 2018)
Post-apartheid Social Protest
Jérôme Tournadre - Author
Andrew Brown - Translator
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Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.
Frequently praised for its democratic transition, South Africa has experienced an almost uninterrupted cycle of social protest since the late 1990s. There have been increasing numbers of demonstrations against the often appalling living conditions of millions of South Africans, pointing to the fact that they have yet ...(Read More) |
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Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010
(February 2018)
Robert C. Smith - Author
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Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.
From his leadership of the first modern lunch counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African American reparations at the time of his death at age seventy-two, Ronald W. Walters (1938–2010) was at the cutting edge of African American polit...(Read More) |
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Confrontational Citizenship
(December 2017)
Reflections on Hatred, Rage, Revolution, and Revolt
William W. Sokoloff - Author
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Defends confrontational modes of citizenship as a means to reinvigorate democratic participation and regime accountability.
A growing number of people are enraged about the quality and direction of public life, despise politicians, and are desperate for real political change. How can the contemporary neoliberal global political order be challenged and rebuilt in an egalitarian and humanitarian manner? What type of political age...(Read More) |
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