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Struggle on Their Minds : The Political Thought of African American Resistance / Alex Zamalin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231181105
  • 9780231543477
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.1196/073 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.615 .Z35 2017
  • E185.615 .Z35 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In this timely book, Alex Zamalin considers key moments of resistance to demonstrate its current and future necessity, focusing on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse. Struggle on Their Minds shows how the core values of the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American political thought that is an invaluable component of contemporary struggles for racial justice.Zamalin looks at the language and concepts put forward by the abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party organizer Huey Newton, and the prison abolitionist Angela Davis. Each helped revise and transform ideas about power, justice, community, action, and the role of emotion in political action. Their thought encouraged abolitionists to call for the eradication of slavery, black journalists to chastise American institutions for their indifference to lynching, and black radicals to police the police and to condemn racial injustice in the American prison system. Taken together, these movements pushed political theory forward, offering new language and concepts to sustain democracy in tense times. Struggle on Their Minds is a critical text for our contemporary moment, showing how the political thought that comes out of resistance can energize the practice of democratic citizenship and ultimately help address the prevailing problem of racial injustice.
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Frontmatter -- 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

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American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In this timely book, Alex Zamalin considers key moments of resistance to demonstrate its current and future necessity, focusing on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse. Struggle on Their Minds shows how the core values of the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American political thought that is an invaluable component of contemporary struggles for racial justice.Zamalin looks at the language and concepts put forward by the abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party organizer Huey Newton, and the prison abolitionist Angela Davis. Each helped revise and transform ideas about power, justice, community, action, and the role of emotion in political action. Their thought encouraged abolitionists to call for the eradication of slavery, black journalists to chastise American institutions for their indifference to lynching, and black radicals to police the police and to condemn racial injustice in the American prison system. Taken together, these movements pushed political theory forward, offering new language and concepts to sustain democracy in tense times. Struggle on Their Minds is a critical text for our contemporary moment, showing how the political thought that comes out of resistance can energize the practice of democratic citizenship and ultimately help address the prevailing problem of racial injustice.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)