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An uplifting look at how organizers in the past have successfully leveraged crises into emancipatory politics, and a plea for continued progressive movement building in our tumultuous social climateFrom the climate apocalypse and COVID-19 to double digit unemployment to Donald Trump and the rise of far-right white nationalists-disasters are everywhere we look.While these disasters often leave us feeling hopeless and withdrawn, scholar Alex Zam...

The first history of racial injustice to examine how civility and white supremacy are linked, and a call for citizens who care about social justice to abandon civility and practice civic radicalismThe idea and practice of civility has always been wielded to silence dissent, repress political participation, and justify violence upon people of color. Although many progressives today are told that we need to be more polite and thoughtful, less ra...

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A call for citizens who care about social justice to abandon the concept of discreet politeness when it comes to racial justice, and support more disruptive actions and complete calls for liberation.The idea and practice of civility has always been wielded to silence dissent, repress political participation, and justify violence upon people of color. Although many progressives today are told that we need to be more polite and thoughtful, less ...

Within the history of African-American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. Here, Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African-American visions of social transformation and their counterutopian counterparts.

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An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracyOn August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists marche...

Struggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.

This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to energize American citizenship today.