Books list; black radicalism. Trying to favor - for lack of better terms - somewhat marxist, workerist, and organization oriented varieties, touches on black labor history
Lots missing here. Topic is too broad and undifferentiated right now as well.
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Cedric Robinson
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Robin D.G. Kelley
Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, Robin D. G. Kelley
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, Robin D. G. Kelley
The Black Panthers Speak, Philip S. Foner
Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro, Barbara Foley
I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, Charles M. Payne
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara Ransby
Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Peniel E. Joseph
Communists in Harlem during the Depression, Mark Naison
New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975, William L. Van Deburg
We Will Return In The Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975, Muhammad Ahmad
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution, Marvin Surkin
The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-36, Mark Solomon
A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Steven Hahn
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South, Robert Rodgers Korstad
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919-1925, Theodore Kornweibel
Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, Jeffrey B Perry
Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist, Harry Haywood
Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City, Heather Ann Thompson
Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, Jeanne Theoharis (Editor), Komozi Woodard (Editor)
Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era, Peniel E. Joseph (Editor)
Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics, Cedric Johnson
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, Carole Boyce Davies
Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism, Charles Mills
Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality, Eric Arnesen
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: ORGANIZING MEMPHIS WORKERS, Michael K. Honey
Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, Annelise Orleck
What’s the Use of Walking When There’s a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes andTheir Songs
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia, Peter Cole
Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35, Randi Storch
Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency:The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, James A. Geschwender
C.L.R. James on the Negro Question, C. L. R. James and Scott McLemee
The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War, William V. Harris
Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923, Eric Arnesen
Black Liberation and Socialism, Ahmed Shawki
Find stuff on the brotherhood of timber workers
See this.
Comment by Renegade Eye — September 11, 2008 @ 12:51 am