The Black Antifascist Tradition : Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition / Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hope, Jeanelle K., author.

Mullen, Bill, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-fascist movements--United States--History.

Anti-fascist movements.

Anti-lynching movements--United States--History.

Anti-lynching movements.

African American civil rights workers--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2024.

Summary:

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world-and to everyone. In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals-from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex-have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. As Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been "the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism." Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger. The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others. In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

The Black Antifascist Tradition: An Introduction

Chapter 1: Premature Black Antifascism: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "Lynch Law," and the Conspiracy of Anti-Black Fascism

Chapter 2: Anticolonial, Pan-Africanist and Communist Antifascism

Chapter 3: Double V Antifascism and World War II

Chapter 4: Legal Antifascism:The "We Charge Genocide" Campaign

Chapter 5: Black Power Antifascism

Chapter 6: 4A Black Antifascism: On Anarchy, Autonomy, Antagonism, and Abolition

Chapter 7: Abolitionist Antifascism

Epilogue: The Modern Global Fascist Echo Chamber and BLM-Antifa

The Black Antifascist Tradition Syllabus

Reading List

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9798888901144

OCLC:

1420628717