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Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle

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ISBN-10: 0814783147

ISBN-13: 9780814783146

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, Dayo F. Gore

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List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.90" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Jeanne Theoharis is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and co-editor (with Komozi Woodard) of Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements (NYU Press).

Komozi Woodard is Professor of American History, Public Policy, and Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics .

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
Introduction
"No Small Amount of Change Could Do": Esther Cooper Jackson and the Making of a Black Left Feminist
What "the Cause" Needs is a "Brainy and Energetic Woman": A Study of Female Charismatic Leadership in Baltimore
From Communist Politics to Black Power: The Visionary Politics and Transnational Solidarities of Victoria "Vicki" Ama Garvin
Shirley Graham Du Bois: Portrait of the Black Woman Artist as a Revolutionary
"A Life History of Being Rebellious": The Radicalism of Rosa Parks
Framing the Panther: Assata Shakur and Black Female Agency
Revolutionary Women, Revolutionary Education: The Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School
Must Revolution be a Family Affair? Revisiting the Black Woman
Retraining the Heartworks: Women in Atlanta's Black Arts Movement
"Women's Liberation or ... Black Liberation, You're Fighting the Same Enemies": Florynce Kennedy, Black Power, and Feminism
To Make That Someday Come: Shirley Chisholm's Radical Politics of Possibility
Denise Oliver and the Young Lords Party: Stretching the Political Boundaries of Struggle
Grassroots Leadership and Afro-Asian Solidarities: Yuri Kochiyama's Humanizing Radicalism
"We Do Whatever Becomes Necessary": Johnnie Tillmon, Welfare Rights, and Black Power
About the Contributors
Index