The radical reader : a documentary history of the American radical tradition / edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian ; foreword by Eric Foner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCarthy, Timothy Patrick.

McMillian, John Campbell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--United States--History--Sources.

Radicalism.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xvi, 688 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, 2003.

Summary:

An anthology of writings by various authors which help explore the persistence and significance of the American radical tradition throughout history.

Radicalism is as American as apple pie. One can scarcely imagine what American society would look like without the abolitionists, feminists, socialists, union organizers, civil rights workers, gay and lesbian activists, and environmentalists who have fought stubbornly to breathe life into the promises of freedom and equality that lie at the heart of American democracy. The first anthology of its kind, The Radical Reader brings together more than 200 primary documents in a comprehensive collection of the writings of America's native radical tradition. Spanning the time from the colonial period to the twenty-first century, the documents have been drawn from a wealth of sources-speeches, manifestos, newspaper editorials, literature, pamphlets, and private letters. From Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" to Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics," these are the documents that sparked, guided, and distilled the most influential movements in American history. Brief introductory essays by the editors provide a rich biographical and historical context for each selection included.

Contents:

American Revolution

Utopian visions

Abolitionism

Suffrage and feminism

Land and labor

Anarchism, socialism, and communism

"New Negro" to Black Power

Modern feminism

The New Left and counterculture

Radical environmentalism

Queer liberation

New directions.

Foreword / Eric Foner

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian

Chapter one. American Revolution. The rights of the British colonies asserted and proved (1764) / James Otis

Resolutions of the Stamp act Congress (1765)

Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British Colonies (1768) / John Dickinson

A State of the rights of the colonists (1772) / Samuel Adams

Slave petitions for freedom (1773)

Speech at the Second Virginia Convention (1775) / Patrick Henry

Common Sense (1776) / Thomas Paine

On Being brought from Africa to America (1773) / Phillis Wheatley

To his Excellency General Washington (1776) / Phillis Wheatley

Letter to John Adams (1776) / Abigail Adams

Declaration of Independence (1776)

An act for establishing religious freedom (1785) / Thomas Jefferson

Petition from Shays' Rebellion (1786)

The Bill of Rights (1791)

A charge (1797) / Prince Hall

Chapter two. Utopian Visions. Six sermons on intemperance (1826) / Lyman Beecher

The rights of man to property (1829) / Thomas Skidmore

Lectures on the revivals of religion (1835) / Charles Grandison Finney

Manifesto (1840) / Robert Owen

Self-reliance (1841) / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Slave spirituals (c. 1600s-1800s)

Resistance to civil government (1849) / Henry David Thoreau

Leaves of grass (1855) / Walt Whitman

Second Inaugural Address (1864) / Abraham Lincoln

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) / Mark Twain

Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888) / Edward Bellamy

Herland (1915) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Chapter three. Abolitionism. Freedom's journal (1827) / Opening editorial

An appeal to the coloured citizens of the world (1829) / David Walker

The liberator (1831) / Opening editorial

Confession (1831) / Nat Turner

Declaration of sentiments (1833) / American Anti-Slavery Society

Productions (1835) / Maria W. Stewart

An appeal to the Christian women of the South (1836) / Angelina Grimké

American slavery as it is (1839) / Theodore Dwight Weld

An address to the slaves of the United States (1843) / Henry Highland Garnet

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (1845) / Frederick Douglass

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe

What to the slave is the Fourth of July? (1852) / Frederick Douglass

The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States politically considered (1852) / Martin Delany

Last speech to the jury (1859) / John Brown

Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments

Chapter four. Suffrage and Feminism. Letters on the equality of the sexes (1838) / Sarah Grimké

Woman in the nineteenth century (1845) / Margaret Fuller

Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of sentiments and resolutions (1848)

The rights of women (1848) / Frederick Douglass

Ar'n't I A woman (1851) / Sojourner Truth

Incidents in the life of a slave girl (1861) / Harriet Jacobs

Letter to Abby Kelley Foster (1867) / Lucy Stone

Appeal to the National Democratic Convention (1868) / Susan B. Anthony

Declaration of the rights of women (1876) / National Woman Suffrage Association

Womanhood a vital element (1886) / Anna Julia Cooper

Solitude of self (1892) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A double standard (1895) / Frances E.W. Harper

A red record (1895) / Ida B. Wells-Barnett

National call for a League of Women Voters (1919) / Carrie Chapman Catt

Nineteenth Amendment (1920).

Chapter five. Land and labor. Declaration of independence (1829) / Working Men's Party

Address to young mechanics (1830) / Frances Wright

An Indian's looking-glass for the white man / (1836) / William Apess

Vote yourself a farm (1846) / George Henry Evans

A reduction of hours, an increase in wages (1865) / Ira Steward

Declaration of principles (1867) / National Labor Union

Statement of principles (1869) / Colored National Labor Union

The great uprising (1877) / Joseph A. Dacus

Preamble (1878) / Knights of Labor

The crime of poverty (1885) / Henry George

Omaha platform (1892) / People's Party

Appeal (1892) / Chinese Equal Rights League

Statement to the American Railway Union (1894) / Pullman Workers

Declaration of interdependence (1895) / Socialist Labor Party

Cross of gold speech (1896) / William Jennings Bryan

Black Elk speaks (1932) / Black Elk

Chapter six. Anarchism, Socialism, and Communism. The jungle (1905) / Upton Sinclair

Manifesto and preamble (1905 and 1908) / The Industrial Workers of the World

The general strike (1911) / William D. "Big Bill" Haywood

Anarchism: what it really stands for (1911) / Emma Goldman

Speech to striking coal miners (1912) / Mother Jones

The trouble at Lawrence (1912) / Mary Heaton Vorse

War in Paterson (1913) / John Reed

Address to the jury (1918) / Eugene Debs

Why I am a Socialist (1928) / Norman Thomas

Acceptance speech at the National Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communists) Party of America (1928) / William Z. Foster

Share our wealth (1935) / Huey Long.

Chapter seven. "New Negro" to Black Power. Two Negro radicalism (1919) / Hubert H. Harrison

The New Negro

What is he? (1920) / W.A. Domingo

Africa for the Africans (1923) / Marcus Garvey

The Negro artist and the racial mountain (1926) / Langston Hughes

You cannot kill the working class (1937) / Angelo Herndon

Why should we march? (1942) / A. Philip Randolph

The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who made it (1955) / Jo Ann Robinson

We must fight back (1959) / Robert F. Williams

Wake up America! (1963) / John Lewis

Letter from Birmingham jail (1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr.

My dungeon shook (1963) / James Baldwin

The ballot or the bullet (1964) / Malcolm X

What we want (1966) / Stokely Carmichael

What we want, what we believe (1966) / The Black Panther Party

Political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation (1971) / Angela Y. Davis

The Gary declaration (1972) / The National Black Political Convention

Chapter eight. Modern Feminism. The feminine mystique (1963) / Betty Friedan

Sex and caste: A kind of memo (1965) / Casey Hayden and Mary King

Statement of purpose (1966) / National Organization for Women (NOW)

No more Miss America! (1968) / Robin Morgan

The myth of the vaginal orgasm (1968) / Anne Koedt

Sexual politics: A manifesto for revolution (1970) / Kate Millett

The enemy within (1970) / Susan Brownmiller

Double jeopardy: To be black and female (1971) / Frances M. Beal

Our bodies, ourselves (1973) / Boston Women's Health Book Collective

The Combahee River Collective statement (1977)

Pornography: Men possessing women (1981) / Andrea Dworkin

ManifestA: Young women, feminism and the future (2000) / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards.

Chapter nine. The new left and counterculture. Howl (1956) / Allen Ginsberg

The Port Huron statement (1962) / Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

One dimensional man (1964) / Herbert Marcuse

Berkeley Fall: The Berkeley student rebellion of 1964 (1965) / Mario Savio

In White America (1967) / Gregory Calvert

The student as Nigger (1967) / Jerry Farber

Predictions for Yippie activities (1968) / Ed Sanders

Columbia liberated (1968) / The Columbia Strike Coordinating Committee

Bring the war home (1969) / Students for a Democratic Society

Comminiqué #1 (1970) / The Weather Underground

Chapter ten. Radical environmentalism. Walden (1854) / Henry David Thoreau

My people are ebbing away like a fast-receding tide (1855) / Chief Seattle

Man and nature (1864) / George P. Marsh

The destruction of the redwoods (1901) / John Muir

A Sand County almanac (1949) / Aldo Leopold

Silent Spring (1962) / Rachel Carson

Desert solitaire (1968) / Edward Abbey

Letter from Delano (1969) / César Chávez

The closing circle (1971) / Barry Commoner

Animal liberation (1975) / Peter Singer

Strategic monkeywrenching (1985) / Dave Foreman

Environmental racism and the environmental justice movement (1993) / Robert Bullard.

Chapter eleven. Queer liberation. The importance of being different (1954) / Lyn Pederson (Jim Kepner)

Gay power comes to Sheridan Square (1969) / Lucian Truscott IV

Notes of a radical Lesbian (1969) / Martha Shelly

Refugees from Amerika: A Gay manifesto (1970) / Carl Williams

The woman-identified woman (1970) / Radicalesbians

What we want, what we believe (1971) / Third World Gay Liberation

How to zap straights (1973) / Arthur Evans

Post-action position statement on its "stop the church" action (1989) / ACT UP

A queer manifesto (1993) / Michelangelo Signorile

Matthew's passion (1998) / Tony Kushner

Epilogue. new directions. Why Johnny can't dissent (1995) / Thomas Frank

Habeus Corpus is a legal entitlement (1996) / asha bandele

Transgender Movement: International bill of gender rights (1995) and Read my lips (1997)

Culture jamming (1999) / Kalle Lasn

WTO: The battle in Seattle (An eyewitness account) (1999) / Roni Krouzman

Freedom agenda (1999) / Black Radical Congress

The academic labor movement: Understanding its origin and current challenges (2000) / Kevin Mattson

5 days that shook the world (2000) / Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

A crisis of democracy (2000) / Ralph Nader

None dare call it treason (2000) / Vincent Bugliosi

Why we are sitting in (2001) / Harvard Living Wage Campaign

Antiwar documents: The boondocks (2002) and We oppose both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. war on Iraq: A call for a new democratic U.S. foreign policy (2003).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1565848276

9781565848276

1565846826

9781565846821

OCLC:

50912753

Publisher Number:

9781565846821