Race and Resistance

Table of Contents

Introduction by Herb Boyd
1 Racism: Looking Forward, Looking Back by Ron Daniels
2 Still at the Periphery: The Economic Status of African Americans by Julianne Malvaeux
3 Blacks in the Labor Movement Interview with Bill Fletcher by Herb Boyd
4 Don't Dump on Us: The Environmental Justice Movement by Charles Simmons
5 Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Y. Davis
6 Race and Gender by bell hooks
7 Resisting in Gardens, Battling in Deserts: Black Women's Activism by Joy James
8 Riffin' on Music and Language by Amiri Baraka
9 How Ya' Like Me Now? Rap and Hip Hop Come of Age by Yvonne Bynoe
10 Mixed Messages: Race and the Media by Alice Tait and Todd Burroughs
11 Black Radicalism, Reinvented: The Promise of the Black Radical Congress by Jennifer Hamer and Clarence Lang
12 Towards the Black Radical Congress by Manning Marable
13 The Modern Struggle for Reparations by Johnita Scott-Obadele
14 In the Fight of Our Lives: Notes on AIDS in the Black Community by Phill Wilson
15 George Bush's Global Agenda: Bad News for Africa by Salih Booker
16 Praying for a Revolution by Paul Scott

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In Race and Resistance: African Americans in the Twenty-First Century, 17 leading African-American scholars and activists discuss the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality.

Edited by acclaimed journalist and author Herb Boyd, this broad, inclusive anthology makes a vital contribution to our understanding of racism and how it can be overcome.

Boyd, national editor of the online news publication The Black World Today, has assembled an outstanding group of essayists-including Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Bill Fletcher, bell hooks, Julianne Malveaux, Manning Marable, and Yvonne Bynoe—writing on a variety of topics, including hip hop and activism, blacks in the labor movement, the emergence of the Black Radical Congress, black feminism, and the criminal justice system.

As Boyd writes in his introduction, "while many of the issues facing African Americans at the beginning of the twenty-first century are not novel, our strategies for self-determination, expression, and indeed, resistance, have had to be consistently inventive and resourceful to be effective. Whether through coalition-building, music, poetry, or frontline activism, the contributors to this anthology dip in the well of theory and practice that has nourished generations of African American activists and invent new ways to challenge the statu...

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