Guerrillas in the industrial jungle : radicalism's primitive and industrial rhetoric / Ursula McTaggart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McTaggart, Ursula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American labor union members.

Black power--United States.

Black power.

Labor movement.

United States.

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

Labor movement--United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2012]

Summary:

Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle traces the history of industrial and primitive metaphors in radical American political activism from the 1960s to the present. Focusing on the Black Panther Party; the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; the International Socialists and the Socialist Workers Party in the 1970s; and twenty-first-century anarchists, Ursula McTaggart analyzes the rhetoric and imagery of these groups alongside African American literature from the same time periods. In the poetry of the Black Arts Movement, neoslave narrative novels of the 1970s and 1980s, and black science fiction since 1990, writers both encourage and critique activists, modeling strategies for political speech and highlighting ethical questions radicals should consider. Activists, on the other hand, confront pragmatic conflicts that literature can sidestep, and their language reflects the need for certainty and strategic decision making. Together, African American literature and radical activist texts reveal new ways of sparking ethical social change. Book jacket.

Contents:

How the panther lost its spots : primitivism and the Black Panther Party

The League of Revolutionary Black Workers bring back the industrial jungle

Becoming the worker, becoming the slave : the socialist project of industrializing and the neo-slave narrative

Urban hunter-gatherers : anarchism and the new primitive

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438439044

1438439040

9781438439037

1438439032

OCLC:

701328910