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In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs

Title
In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs / Stephen M. Ward.
Author
Ward, Stephen M., 1970-
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

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Description
xix, 433 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"James and Grace Lee Boggs were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. James Boggs was the son of an Alabama sharecropper who came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union leader. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied Hegel, worked with Caribbean political theorist C. L. R. James, and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was influential in the early stages of what would become the Black Power movement, laying the intellectual foundation for labor and urban struggles during one of the most active social movement periods in modern U.S. history. Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses' lives, highlighting the vital contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking"--
Series Statement
Justice, power, and politics
Uniform Title
Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Making a way out of no way: Jimmy's Southern roots and urban groundings -- Black radical Detroit: Jimmy, the Labor Movement, and the Left -- Embracing contradictions: Grace's philosophic journey and political emergence -- Revolutionary Marxism: Grace, black protest, and the Johnson-Forest tendency -- Marxism and marriage in Detroit -- Building correspondence -- Facing multiple realities -- Only one side is right -- An ending and a beginning -- The American revolution.
Call Number
Sc E 16-1877
ISBN
  • 9780807835203
  • 080783520X
LCCN
2015041272
OCLC
922912829
Author
Ward, Stephen M., 1970- author.
Title
In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs / Stephen M. Ward.
Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-1877
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