{"product_id":"black-scare-red-scare-9780226830131","title":"Black Scare  Red Scare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Burden-Stelly is not content with simply contributing to existing scholarship. She shakes things up. And \u003ci\u003eBlack Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e hits with volcanic force, sweeping away the prevailing tendency to underestimate the Black Marxist threat to racial capitalism and the embedded anti-Blackness driving state repression. Burden-Stelly details precisely how the ‘political economy of capitalist racism’ played a decisive role in the super-exploitation and subjugation of the Black working class, resulting in a protracted war on Black radical movements. A powerful, pathbreaking work that not only reorients the long history of anticommunism on Black liberation but moves the theory of racial capitalism to an entirely new level.”   -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003cbr\u003e“Burden-Stelly is one of our most brilliant radical thinkers and scholars. In \u003ci\u003eBlack Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e she recounts, reassesses, and reframes the historical relationship between white supremacy and anti-communism. In light of growing racist authoritarian movements today, the book could not be more timely. Powerful and powerfully relevant.”  -- Barbara Ransby, historian, activist, and author of the award-winning Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement\u003cbr\u003e“Engaging various disciplines including Black studies and political theory, \u003ci\u003eBlack Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly sophisticated and timely book. Beginning with the Bolshevik Revolution and ending with contemporary federal campaigns aimed at surveilling and quelling radical Black thought and activism, Burden-Stelly’s deeply researched study presents the long history of two overlapping panics: the Black Scare and Red Scare. A major contribution to the field of African American history, Burden-Stelly brilliantly illuminates how anti-Black and anticommunist sentiments unfolded as the United States pursued capitalist and global dominance.\u003ci\u003e Black Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e is certain to transform our understanding of the origins of anti-Black radicalism and histories of Black activists’ collective fight for liberation and struggle against ‘US Capitalist Racist Society.’” -- LaShawn D. Harris, Michigan State University\u003cbr\u003e“This book is truly one of a kind. The subject matter is timely, and its analysis could not be more original. \u003ci\u003eBlack Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e will spark widespread debate and continue to be read for many years to come.” -- Jonathan Fenderson, Washington University in St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlack Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical and theoretical tour de force. Burden-Stelly explains how the development of anti-Communism and the suppression of Black radicalism became intertwined central governing priorities that bolstered US capitalism from the First World War to the Cold War and beyond. The eventual construction by government officials of what Burden-Stelly calls ‘True Americanism’ legitimized business interests’ racialized profiteering by condemning its critics as radical alien outsiders. These trends reshaped all branches and levels of government. No previous book has analyzed the dizzying array of committees and organizations whose purpose was to quash democratic opponents to US capitalism: the FBI and its Dies Committee, paid informants and infiltrators, and the courts all dedicated untold resources to smashing threats to US racial hierarchy and the economic inequality it fostered. \u003ci\u003eBlack Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately reveals a countersubversive political tradition, developed over the past century, that connects to current attacks on ‘Black Identity Extremism’ and ‘wokeism’ as distractions from actual fascist developments in American society. All scholars and activists interested in antiracism and democracy in America need to engage with this pathbreaking book.” -- Erik Gellman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eBlack Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e, Burden-Stelly enters the pantheon of Black radical thinkers, past and present. Analyzing phenomena ranging from the structural location of Blackness to the resurgence of fascism, \u003ci\u003eBlack Scare \/ Red Scare\u003c\/i\u003e demystifies the processes that subjugate Black lives and sustain economic domination. Do not miss this meticulous and uncompromising study.”  -- Vaughn Rasberry, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Black Scare \/ Red Scare Foundation: Political Economy and the Threat of Radical Blackness\u003cbr\u003e 1. Theorizing US Capitalist Racist Society\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Black Scare, the Red Scare, and the Threat of Radical Blackness\u003cbr\u003e 3. Genres of Radical Blackness\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Negro Question as a National Question, the Structural Location of Blackness, and the Problem of Black Self-Determination\u003cbr\u003e 5. Wall Street Imperialism and Expropriation Abroad\u003cbr\u003e 6. War, Wall Street Imperialism, (Inter-)National Accumulation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Black Scare \/ Red Scare Codification: Governance and Legitimating Architecture\u003cbr\u003e 7. Theorizing Anticommunism as a Mode of Governance\u003cbr\u003e 8. Loyalty, Criminality, and “Clear and Present Danger”: The Anticommunist Governance of the Executive and Judicial Branches\u003cbr\u003e 9. Sedition, Subversion, and National Security: The Anticommunist Governance of the Legislative Branch\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Countersubversive Political Tradition and the Threat of US Fascism\u003cbr\u003e 11. True Americanism: The Legitimating Architecture of US Capitalist Racist Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400137613655,"sku":"9780226830131","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226830131.jpg?v=1730469850","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-scare-red-scare-9780226830131","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}