Antiracism : an introduction / Alex Zamalin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zamalin, Alex, 1986- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-racism--United States.

Anti-racism.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

vii, 197 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Racism is America's original and most enduring sin, with well-known historic and contemporary markers: slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration, police brutality. Yet a resurgence of white racism in the twenty-first century, from white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the skyrocketing number of hate crimes being reported around the country, has also brought into sharp relief another uniquely American tradition: antiracism. In Anticracism, Alex Zamalin tells the powerful story of this political theory and practice. He examines the way in which the black antiracist tradition has strongly engaged questions of freedom, equality, justice, struggle, and political hope in dark times. Through a study of major figures, texts and political movements, he traces the history of antislavery abolition, black socialism, and the civil rights movement, leading all the way up to the contemporary Movement for Black Lives. back cover.

Contents:

The origins of American antiracism

Rejecting the power of racism

Fighting for freedom

Political movements in struggle

Antiracism now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-187) and index.

ISBN:

9781479849284

1479849286

9781479822638

1479822639

OCLC:

1050455448