Name: Race Rebels By Robin D. G. Kelley
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Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class by Robin D. G. Kelley

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.

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Monthly Review It is not too much or too early to call Robin D. G. Kelley, barely thirty years old, a leading black historian of the age. But it may not be enough...His work, seen in a certain light, is less about the past than the future...To listen carefully to the voices of discontent is not our only mission, but it may curiously be our most difficult. Kelley helps us open our eyes (and our heart) to the task.
Quarterly Black Review In a prose that is clear, full of real-world illustrations and sometimes outright funny, [Kelley] does something increasingly rare: he maintains political commitment while appreciating various kinds of aesthetic, social and political differences (rebel, rebel).
The Dallas Weekly This book is smart, noble, and potentially restorative. Read it, we need to.
Choice A wide-ranging, challenging book that deserves attention by anyone seriously interested in African American culture.
Darlene Clark Hine author of The State of Afro-American History: Past, Present & Future Race Rebels is African American history at its challenging and transformative best. Robin D. G. Kelley's exquisite interweaving of cultural and political dynamics illuminates obscure and unseen sites of Black working-class resistance throughout the 20th century. This is an extraordinary and provocative book.
Cornel West Robin Kelley is the preeminent historian of black popular culture writing today.

About Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley teaches History at UCLA and is the author of several books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

Contents

Foreword by George Lipsitz

Introduction: Writing Black Working-Class History from Way, Way Below

PART I. WE WEAR THE MASK: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE

1. Shiftless of the World Unite!

2. We Are Not What We Seem: The Politics and Pleasures of Community

3. Congested Terrain: Resistance on Public Transportation

4. Birmingham's Untouchables: The Black Poor in the Age of Civil Rights

PART II. TO BE RED AND BLACK

5. Afric's Sons With Banner Red: African American Communists and the Politics of Culture, 1919-1934

6. This Ain't Ethiopia, But It'll Do: African Americans and the Spanish Civil War

PART III. REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE?

7. The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics During World War II

8. Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: Gangsta Rap and Postindustrial Los Angeles

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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CIN0684826399VG

ISBN 13

9780684826394

ISBN 10

0684826399

Title

Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class by Robin D. G. Kelley

Author

Robin D. G. Kelley

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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Year published

19960601

Number of pages

384

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