{"product_id":"revolutionary-lives-of-the-red-and-black-atlantic-since-1917-9781526144782","title":"Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This luminous collection brings several revolutionary lives to its pages to show us how these figures both experienced and shaped the world around them. The legendary figures whose stories are told here, many of them central to the black radical tradition, emerged at the intersection of the \"Red\" and \"Black\" Atlantics. Their lives and struggles offer us rich visions of possibilities and solidarities beyond the confines of the nation-state which are needed now more than ever. This book is an invaluable resource for such hopes and dreams.'\u003cbr\u003ePriyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A valuable addition to the rich history of African-Atlantic Marxism.'\u003cbr\u003eSteve Cushion, \u003ci\u003eChartist \u003c\/i\u003e(No. 320)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Pathbreaking [...] essential reading not only for labour historians, but also for all those within academia and the public sphere interested in the important, but far too often neglected, linked subject areas of the influences \u003cbr\u003eof revolutionary Marxism, in the form of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, upon black revolutionaries, their social movements, their political and personal biographies, and their relations with predominantly non-black activists and movements in the Atlantic world.' \u003cbr\u003eNeville Kirk, \u003ci\u003eLabour History Review \u003c\/i\u003e(88.3)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The essays in this study make a new and original contribution to questions of race, class and gender, Marxism, black nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism. They should inspire more historians and other scholars to work across disciplines and to transcend the dominant whiteness of labour studies. This will enable us more fully to explore and understand the rich ways in which white and black activists and their movements operated and related in a variety of global spaces and places over time.'\u003cbr\u003eNeville Kirk, \u003ci\u003eLabour History Review \u003c\/i\u003e(88.3)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A galaxy of stars to steer by – \u003ci\u003eDavid Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg and Alan Rice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI – Black Bolshevism\u003cbr\u003e1 Hubert Henry Harrison: Black radicalism and the Colored International – \u003ci\u003eBrian Kwoba\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Wilfred Domingo under investigation: the ‘Negro menace’ of 1919 – \u003ci\u003ePeter Hulme\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Cyril Briggs: guns, bombs, spooks and writing the revolution – \u003ci\u003eJak Peake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Gendering the Black radical tradition: Grace P. Campbell’s role in the formation of a radical feminist tradition in African American intellectual culture \u003ci\u003e– Lydia Lindsey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII – Interwar intersections of Red and Black\u003cbr\u003e5 Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the transformation of Communism in Southern Africa, 1917–31 – \u003ci\u003eHenry \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Pan-Africanism and Marxism in interwar France: the case of Lamine Senghor – \u003ci\u003eDavid Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Black Americans in Russia: Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson – \u003ci\u003eLisa Merrill and Theresa Saxon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII - Politics and Poetics\u003cbr\u003e8 Raya Dunayevskaya: the embodiment of the Red\/Black Atlantic in theory and practice – \u003ci\u003eChris Gilligan and Nigel Niles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 European Marxist or Black intellectual? C.L.R. James and the advancement of Marxism beyond Russian-Leninism – \u003ci\u003eTennyson S. D. Joseph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 Poetry and Walter Rodney’sThe Unfinished Revolution– \u003ci\u003eDavid Austin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 ‘Hard Facts’: Amiri Baraka and Marxism-Leninism in the 1970s – \u003ci\u003eDavid Grundy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword – \u003ci\u003eHakim Adi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041009140055,"sku":"9781526144782","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526144782.jpg?v=1750948580","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/revolutionary-lives-of-the-red-and-black-atlantic-since-1917-9781526144782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}