In Love and Struggle The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs / Stephen M. Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Stephen M., 1970- author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--United States--History--20th century.

Socialism.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

Civil rights workers--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

Political activists--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.

Political activists.

Chinese American women--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.

Chinese American women.

African American radicals--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.

African American radicals.

African American political activists--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.

African American political activists.

Boggs, Grace Lee.

Boggs, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016

Summary:

James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. 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 racial and urban struggles during one of the most active social movement periods in recent 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. At once a dual biography of two crucial figures and a vivid portrait of Detroit as a center of activism, Ward's book restores the Boggses, and the intellectual strain of black radicalism they shaped, to their rightful place in postwar American history.

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:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-417) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908405-4-7

1-4696-1770-6

1-4696-1771-4

OCLC:

956478845