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In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs / Stephen M. Ward.
Van Pelt Library F574.D49 A276 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ward, Stephen M., 1970- author.
- Series:
- Justice, power, and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boggs, James.
- Boggs, Grace Lee.
- African American political activists--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.
- African American political activists.
- African American radicals--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.
- African American radicals.
- Chinese American women--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.
- Chinese American women.
- Political activists--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.
- Political activists.
- Civil rights workers--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Black power--United States--History--20th century.
- Black power.
- United States.
- History.
- Socialism--United States--History--20th century.
- Socialism.
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 433 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "James and Grace Lee Boggs were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. James Boggs was the son of an Alabama sharecropper who came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union leader. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied Hegel, worked with Caribbean political theorist C. L. R. James, and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was influential in the early stages of what would become the Black Power movement, laying the intellectual foundation for labor and urban struggles during one of the most active social movement periods in modern U.S. history. Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses' lives, highlighting the vital contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Making a way out of no way: Jimmy's Southern roots and urban groundings
- Black radical Detroit: Jimmy, the Labor Movement, and the Left
- Embracing contradictions: Grace's philosophic journey and political emergence
- Revolutionary Marxism: Grace, black protest, and the Johnson-Forest tendency
- Marxism and marriage in Detroit
- Building correspondence
- Facing multiple realities
- Only one side is right
- An ending and a beginning
- The American revolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835203
- 080783520X
- OCLC:
- 922912829
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