Beschreibung:
Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.
Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.
ContentsForeword by George LipsitzIntroduction: Writing Black Working-Class History from Way, Way BelowPART I. "WE WEAR THE MASK": HIDDEN HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE1. Shiftless of the World Unite!2. "We Are Not What We Seem": The Politics and Pleasures of Community3. Congested Terrain: Resistance on Public Transportation4. Birmingham's Untouchables: The Black Poor in the Age of Civil RightsPART II. TO BE RED AND BLACK5. "Afric's Sons With Banner Red": African American Communists and the Politics of Culture, 1919-19346. "This Ain't Ethiopia, But It'll Do": African Americans and the Spanish Civil WarPART III. REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE?7. The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics During World War II8. Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: "Gangsta Rap" and Postindustrial Los AngelesAfterwordNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex