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Radicalism at the Crossroads African American Women Activists in the Cold War

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ISBN-10: 0814770118

ISBN-13: 9780814770115

Edition: 2012

Authors: Dayo F. Gore

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In this exciting work of historical recovery, Dayo F. Gore unearths and examines a dynamic, extended network of black radical women during the early Cold War, including established Communist Party activists such as Claudia Jones, artists and writers such as Beulah Richardson, and lesser known organizers such as Vicki Garvin and Thelma Dale. These women were part of a black left that laid much of the groundwork for both the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and later strains of black radicalism.Radicalism at the Crossroadsoffers a sustained and in-depth analysis of the political thought and activism of black women radicals during the Cold War period and adds a new dimension to our…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Marcelo M. Su�rez-Orozco is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University, where he is also co-director of Immigration Studies.Dayo F. Gore is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego and has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the co-editor (with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard) of Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in  the Black Freedom Struggle (NYU Press, 2009).

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Forging a Community of Radical Intellectuals and Activists
Black Women, the Black Left, and the Communist Party USA in the 1930s and 1940s
In Defense of Black Womanhood
Race, Gender, Class, and the Politics of Interracial Solidarity, 1945-1951
Refraining Civil Rights Activism during the Cold War
The Rosa Lee Ingram Case, 1948-1959
Race and Gender at Work
From the Labor Journalism of Marvel Cooke to Vicki Garvin and the National Negro Labor Council, 1935-1956
From Freedom to Freedomways
Black Women Radicals and the Black Freedom Movement in the 1960s and 1970s
Conclusion
Centering Black Women on the Left
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author