Long Distance Runners
Black Women Radicals and the Struggle for Liberation
Long Distance Runners
Black Women Radicals and the Struggle for Liberation
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Tells the extraordinary story of a network of pioneering Black radical women – Claudia Jones, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Vicki Garvin, Louise Thompson Patterson and Eslanda Robeson - whose fearless activism reshaped the 20th-century fight for Black liberation.
This book explores their enduring influence, revealing how their transnational networks and strategies laid the groundwork for subsequent movements. They were exiled not only from the frontlines of U.S. activism but from our memory of Black radical activism. By bringing their overlooked contributions back into focus, this book redefines our understanding of the Civil Rights and Black Power eras, showcasing these women as unseen architects in the global struggle for liberation. The strategies these women developed – anti-war activism, transnational approaches, grassroots organizing, and working-class solidarity – are just as relevant today as global conflicts escalate and movements for justice face increasing repression.
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Table of Contents
1. The Foundations of Black Women's Radicalism (1930-1936)
2. Eslanda Robeson's African Journey (1930-1936)
3. Anti-Fascism and The Struggle Against Jim Crow (1936-1946)
4. Black Women's Activism on the American Home Front (1936-1946)
5. Journalism as Praxis in the Fight for Democracy (1946-1956)
6. A Network Under Attack: Marxism on Trial (1946-1956)
7. Claudia Jones, Shirley Graham Du Bois and Vicki Garvin: Pioneers in Exile (1956-1966)
8. Continuities in the Black Freedom Struggle: New Faces, Old Battles (1956-1966)
9. Black Power and Black Panthers: Retreading Radical Roots (1967-1977)
10. Black Women Radicals: Long Distance Runners in the Struggle for Black Liberation (1967-1977)
Conclusion: The Future of Black Radicalism: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead
Product details
| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216441762 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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