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Hillbilly nationalists, urban race rebels, and black power : community organizing in radical times / Amy Sonnie and James Tracy ; with a foreword by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Van Pelt Library HN90.C6 S66 2011
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sonnie, Amy.
Contributor:
Tracy, James.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Community organization--United States--History--20th century.
Community organization.
Social movements--United States--History--20th century.
Social movements.
New Left.
History.
Poor white people.
Political participation.
United States.
Poor white people--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.
New Left--United States--History--20th century.
Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.
Radicalism.
JOIN Community Union.
Young Patriots Organization.
Rising Up Angry (Organization).
White Lightning (Organization).
October 4th Organization.
Physical Description:
xx, 201 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2011]
Summary:
This history of new left in the 1960s highlights the involvement of working class white people in the development of radical political organizations. Arguing against the popular conception that white involvement in civil rights, anti-war and social justice movements came primarily from the upper-middle classes, this volume explores grassroots organizations of working and marginalized white people working together across racial, political, and class lines to promote radical change. Sonnie and Tracy are long time political activists and writers. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Contents:
Ch. 1. The Common Cause Is Freedom : JOIN Community Union and the Transformation of Peggy Terry
Ch. 2. The Fire Next Time : The Short Life of the Young Patriots and the Original Rainbow Coalition
Ch. 3. Pedagogy of the Streets : Rising Up Angry
Ch. 4. Lightening on the Eastern Seaboard : October 4th Organization and White Lightening.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
1935554662
9781935554660
OCLC:
696099200
Publisher Number:
99946135484

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