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  title info:
    title: Struggle on their minds
    sub title: the political thought of African American resistance
  name:
    name part: Zamalin, Alex
    name part: 1986-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The rise of the American economy, the persistence of social inequality and the ongoing struggle for adequate political representation cannot be evaluated separately from slavery, the country's original sin. Five activists who have fought to incorporate slavery into American political discourse are the focus of this timely book, in which Alex Zamalin considers past African American resistance to underscore its future democratic necessity. He looks at the language and conceptions put forward by the American abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party organizer Huey P. Newton and the prison reformer Angela Davis. Each through passionate argument revised the core values of the American political tradition and reformed ideas about power, justice, community, action and the role of emotion in elective outcomes. Zamalin finds numerous examples in which political theory developed a more open and resilient conception of individual liberty after key moments of African American resistance provoked by these activists' work. Their thought encouraged slaves to revolt against their masters, black radical abolitionists to call for the eradication of slavery by any means necessary, 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 constructive resistance can strengthen the practice of democracy and help disenfranchised groups achieve political parity.
  table of contents: Introduction: the political thought of African American resistance -- David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the abolitionist democratic vision -- Ida B. Wells, the antilynching movement, and the politics of seeing -- Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the decolonization of America -- Angela Davis, prison abolition, and the end of the American carceral state -- Conclusion: the future of resistance.
  note: Alex Zamalin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Walker, David
      name part: 1785-1830
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Douglass, Frederick
      name part: 1818-1895
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wells-Barnett, Ida B
      name part: 1862-1931
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Newton, Huey P
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne)
      name part: 1944-
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Political activity
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: African American intellectuals
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    geographic: United States
    topic: Influence
  classification: E185.615 .Z35 2017
  classification: 323.1196/073
  identifier: 9780231181105
  identifier: 0231181108
  identifier: 9780231543477
  identifier: 2016057013
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170417
    record change date: 20170926120406.0
    record identifier: in00003806143