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Informationen zum Autor Dr. James Boggs is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Boggs studied at the Hamma School of Theology (Wittenberg University) before entering active duty as an Army Combat Engineer, 2nd Lieutenant. He also holds masters in Systems Management from George Washington University and in Information Architecture from Capitol Technical University. He completed his doctorate in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University. A retired Army officer and a twenty-year adjunct college professor, Dr. Boggs is interested in the U.S. Constitution and the political writings of the 17th and 18th centuries. He now turns his critical problem solving to what he considers some of the most critical, non-engineering problems facing American society in the twenty-first century. Klappentext Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two books, co-authored two others, and penned dozens of essays, pamphlets, reviews, manifestos, and newspaper columns to become known as a pioneering revolutionary theorist and community organizer. In Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader, editor Stephen M. Ward collects a diverse sampling of pieces by Boggs, spanning the entire length of his career from the 1950s to the early 1990s.Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook is arranged in four chronological parts that document Boggs's activism and writing. Part 1 presents columns from Correspondence newspaper written during the 1950s and early 1960s. Part 2 presents the complete text of Boggs's first book, The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook, his most widely known work. In part 3, "Black Power-Promise, Pitfalls, and Legacies," Ward collects essays, pamphlets, and speeches that reflect Boggs's participation in and analysis of the origins, growth, and demise of the Black Power movement. Part 4 comprises pieces written in the last decade of Boggs's life, during the 1980s through the early 1990s. An introduction by Ward provides a detailed overview of Boggs's life and career, and an afterword by Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs's wife and political partner, concludes this volume.Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook documents Boggs's personal trajectory of political engagement and offers a unique perspective on radical social movements and the African American struggle for civil rights in the post-World War II years. Readers interested in political and ideological struggles of the twentieth century will find Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook to be fascinating reading. Zusammenfassung Collects a diverse sampling of pieces by James Boggs! spanning the entire length of his career from the 1950s to the early 1990s. It documents Boggs' personal trajectory of political engagement and offers a unique perspective on radical social movements and the African American struggle for civil rights in the post-World War II years. ...
