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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.
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.
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Zamalin...make[s] a significant contribution to contemporary political theory by demonstrating the importance of taking black thinkers seriously.
