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In love and struggle the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
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Title
In love and struggle [electronic resource] : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs / Stephen M. Ward.
ISBN
1469617714
9781469617718
9780807835203
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xix, 433 pages).)
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. 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 racial and urban struggles during one of the most active social movement periods in recent 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. At once a dual biography of two crucial figures and a vivid portrait of Detroit as a center of activism, Ward's book restores the Boggses, and the intellectual strain of black radicalism they shaped, to their rightful place in postwar American history.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 American Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 History.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 19, 2016
Series
Justice, power, and politics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-417) 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.
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