Struggle on Their Minds - The Political Thought of African American Resistance

Struggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance
1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision
2. Ida B. Wells, the Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing
3. Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America
4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral State
Conclusion: The Future of Resistance
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Alex Zamalin is assistant professor of political science and director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit Mercy. He is the author of African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (2015); Antiracism: An Introduction (2019); and Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbia, 2019).

Summary

Struggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Zamalin, Zamalin Alex
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780231181105
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18110-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Ethnic Studies, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Civics and citizenship, Civil rights; Black history