Author: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Publisher: New York, New Century Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Joseph Keith
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813559685
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African American writers—C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright—Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms “alienage,” as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of the "American Century.” Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today.

Author: Stéphane Courtois
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674076082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.

Author: Hosea Hudson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393310153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Oral biography of the African American who was a Communist Party leader in the U.S. in the 1930s and 1940s.

Author: Albert Vetere Lannon
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739100028
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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In this fascinating biography, Albert Lannon, son of Al Lannon, offers a scholarly look at his father's life and development as an American Communist. Beginning with Al Lannon's days as a teenage runaway and following his career in the Party, the author utilizes primary and secondary sources to document this extraordinary life in depth. Concluding the book with his own perspectives on his father's life, Lannon presents a unique and personal view of this important figure in American labor history. Second String Red will be of great interest to scholars of American trade unionism and communism.

Author: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Publisher: New York : New Century Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: John Munro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107188059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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This book connects the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe.

Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1470

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Author: Elisabeth B. Armstrong
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520390903
Category : Anti-imperialist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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"In 1949, revolutionary women from Asia who fought colonial occupation and patriarchal oppression gathered in Beijing for the Asian Women's Conference. Together, they drew from their experiences to develop a political strategy for women's internationalism that sought to end imperialism and build socialism. Connected with the Women's International Democratic Federation, women from Latin America, the Caribbean, and North, West, and Southern Africa also joined the conversation before the rise of Afro-Asian solidarity movements gained the name. Their strategy for internationalism demanded that women from occupying colonial nations contest imperialism with the same dedication as women whose countries were occupied"--

Author: Pettis Perry
Publisher: New York : New Century Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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