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But it’s like, if you wanted to be able to design the flow of water through a hydoelectric plant or do brain surgery on an infant, at the very start you’d be cracking the books late into the night and studying for all you were worth. Yaki didn’t think that trying to transform society was any easier…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Yaki started out in prison, he had amassed a real library of political and history books, together with magazines and files of documents and correspondence. And he spent hours and hours studying and writing. This gradually became more and more choked off by prison authorities. As he put it: “Inside it only grows worse, not better. Because they keep changing wardens, and every warden has to prove that they’ve made some change or new shit they can point to. 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Includes forewords by political prisoners Marilyn Buck and Sundiata Acoli.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book stands alone in the growing number of books about the 1960s, the anti-Vietnam War Movement, and the Weather Underground Organization because of David's willingness to own it and analyze it. His discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of this history, the role of armed struggle, the rise of terrorism, the continued aggression of the U.S. government speak directly to the concerns of everyone working for justice anywhere. David's discussion of these topics is freer, more alive, and more honest than any I have read. This book should stimulate learning from our political prisoners, but more importantly it challenges us to work to free them, and in doing so take the best of our history forward.\" Susan Rosenberg, former US political prisoner \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"David Gilbert is a warrior in the most profound sense of the term. Imbued with a near-crystalline clarity of principle, the indomitable courage to live his life in accordance with the values he holds true, and, most importantly, his every action guided by the immensity of his love for the wretched of this earth, he is truly an inspiration. Predictably, given the strength of Gilbert's character, his writings are offered as tools—nay, WEAPONS—in the ongoing struggle for liberation. They are thus of incalculable value to each of us who aspires to the attainment of freedom, justice and dignity for ALL people.\" Ward Churchill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: David Gilbert\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781894925266\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 283 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Abraham Guillen Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Abraham Guillen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175078834269,"sku":"1894925262","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_914_nosurrender3_0.jpg?v=1654987263"},{"product_id":"people-wasnt-made-to-burn-a-true-story-of-race-murder-and-justice-in-chicago","title":"People Wasn't Made To Burn: A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicago’s West Side. Prosecutors hung the death sentence over Hickman’s head, but a vibrant defense campaign exposed how working poverty and racism led to his crime and helped win Hickman’s freedom. With a true-crime writer’s eye for suspense and the historian’s depth of knowledge, Joe Allen unearths the compelling story of a campaign that was willing to stand up to Jim Crow well before the modern civil rights movement had even begun. As deteriorating housing conditions and an accelerating foreclosure crisis combine to form a hauntingly similar set of factors as those that led to the tragic fire that claimed the lives of James Hickman’s children, Allen’s book restores to prominence a previously unknown individual whose story has profound relevance today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoe Allen is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review and a long-standing activist, based in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"James Hickman was one of the hundreds of thousands of black Mississippians to move to Chicago in the 1940s. The nightmarish tragedy that befell the Hickman family there, as well as the actions of the dedicated activists who fought to save Hickman's life by revealing the institutional foundations of that tragedy, are vividly depicted in Joe Allen's important and moving history. Hickman's story illustrates the toxic nature of racial segregation and economic exploitation. The outraged community that united to support Hickman is a refreshing reminder of people's power to organize for change.\" —Beryl Satter, author, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America “In a remarkable feat of historical excavation and taut storytelling, Joe Allen tells the incredible story of James Hickman, an African-American man who struck back after a black Chicago slumlord and arsonist decimated his family and nearly destroyed his life. A stark look into a past of big city racism and poverty that we shouldn’t forget—and an important contribution to the history of social justice in America.” —Alex Heard, author, The Eyes of Willie McGee \"Astonishing…. People Wasn't Made to Burn does nothing less than reinvent the true-crime genre…. Allen has rescued a part of our social history, which on its own is an impressive accomplishment. He has turned the true-crime genre upside down, which also is a fantastic feat. But by book's end, Allen relates the Hickman case to our own troubled times.\" —Dave Zirin, the Nation \"We cannot ignore and we dare not forget the willful damage that racial bias did to African-American men, women and children who lived in the Northern cities of America during the 20th Century. Invidious discrimination fed the roots of poverty. It was also the whetstone that so often sharpened the humanity and staunchness of those who endured and survived it. Joe Allen’s book, People Wasn’t Made to Burn, presents the 1947 Hickman trial in Chicago and its revelations as a metaphor for racial prejudice and its effects on the lives of ordinary people. The book’s story tells of James Hickman’s frustration over his inability to get justice in the arson death of his four children, his subsequent killing of the landlord who was deliberately responsible for the fire, and the efforts of the heroic and conscience-arousing Hickman Defense Committee that enabled him to walk out of court a free man.\" —Kenan Heise, author, Chicago Afternoons With Leon and co-author, Spoiled Rotten Day “What I appreciate about Joe Allen’s work is that he demonstrates as a historian the power of information, meticulous, distilled, coherent, principled.” —John Pilger, award-winning journalist and documentarian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\/ “[Vietnam is] accessible where so many other books on the subject have not been. Furthermore, its comprehensiveness helps make sense of an often confusing historical period. Friends of mine who teach history to high school and college undergraduates often bemoan the lack of texts on this period that are written so that their students will read them. With Allen's new release, I think they have found their book.” —Ron Jacobs, Znet “An unflinching history of the United States involvement in the Vietnam war—America's motives, its cruelties, and why America ultimately failed to win the war, along with comparisons to the modern-day situation in Iraq…Not a politically neutral account, Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost is carefully researched and deserves a thorough examination especially in today's era when the lasting harm America did in Vietnam is all too easily forgotten.” —Midwest Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Joe Allen\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781608461264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 352 pages + index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175091515485,"sku":"9781608461264","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1033_peoplewasnt3_0.jpg?v=1654987364"},{"product_id":"we-have-not-been-moved-resisting-racism-and-militarism-in-21st-century-america","title":"We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe Have Not Been Moved is a compendium addressing the two leading pillars of U.S. Empire. Inspired by the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who called for a “true revolution of values” against the racism, militarism, and materialism which he saw as the heart of a society “approaching spiritual death,” this book recognizes that—for the most part—the traditional peace movement has not been moved far beyond the half-century-old call for a deepening critique of its own prejudices. While reviewing the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine through both historic and contemporary articles from a diverse range of scholars and activists, the editors emphasize what needs to be done now to move forward for lasting social change. Produced in collaboration with the War Resisters League, the book also examines the strategic and tactic possibilities of radical transformation through revolutionary nonviolence. Among the historic texts included are rarely-seen writings by antiracist icons such as Anne Braden, Barbara Deming, and Audre Lorde, as well as a dialogue between Dr. King, revolutionary nationalist Robert F. Williams, Dave Dellinger, and Dorothy Day. Never-before-published pieces appear from civil rights and gay rights organizer Bayard Rustin and from celebrated U.S. pacifist supporter of Puerto Rican sovereignty Ruth Reynolds. Additional articles making their debut in this collection include new essays by and interviews with Fred Ho, Jose Lopez, Joel Kovel, Francesca Fiorentini and Clare Bayard, David McReynolds, Greg Payton, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ellen Barfield, Jon Cohen, Suzanne Ross, Sachio Ko-Yin, Edward Hasbrouck, Dean Johnson, and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e. Other contributions include work by Andrea Dworkin, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Starhawk, Andrea Smith, John Stoltenberg, Vincent Harding, Liz McAlister, Victor Lewis, Matthew Lyons, Tim Wise, Dorothy Cotton, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e, Kenyon Farrow, Frida Berrigan, David Gilbert, Chris Crass, and many others. Peppered throughout the anthology are original and new poems by Chrystos, Dylcia Pagan, Malkia M’Buzi Moore, Sarah Husein, Mary Jane Sullivan, Liz Roberts, and the late Marilyn Buck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“When we sang out ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’ in Montgomery and Selma, we were committed to our unshakeable unity against segregation and violence. This important book continues in that struggle—suggesting ways in which we need to do better, and actions we must take against war and continued racism today. If the human race is still here in 2111, the War Resisters League will be one of the reasons why!” —Pete Seeger, folk singer and activist “The rich and still evolving tradition of revolutionary pacifism, effectively sampled in these thoughtful and penetrating essays, offers the best hope we have for overcoming threats that are imminent and grim, and for moving on to create a society that is more just and free. These outstanding contributions should be carefully pondered, and taken to heart as a call for action.” —Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist “One of the biggest stumbling blocks to building a successful movement against war has been our inability to cross racial and cultural lines, bridging the divides created and maintained by the powers that be. Since the 1960s, there have been some hopeful signs—in grassroots groups and in educational efforts—but the road forward is still long and difficult. The contributors to We Have Not Been Moved, with extraordinary scope and vision, have given us an indispensable tool to fight oppression, resist war and injustice, and create powerful new coalitions for lasting social change. This volume should be required reading—alongside of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States—in every sociology and political science class.” —Connie Hogarth, life-long peace and justice activist and inspiration for Manhattanville College’s Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action; co-founder and former executive director of the Westchester People’s Action Coalition “While it is nearly impossible to agree, or to disagree, with the totality of this or any other book, I applaud the ways in which We Have Not Been Moved helps us sharpen our understanding of these moral and social imperatives. This book is in the best tradition of civil and human rights movements and a welcome addition to the literature on these crucial issues.” —Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez, (D-IL) “In an era of rampant militarism, growing anti-Islamic sentiment and racist violence, the essays in We Have Not Been Moved provide us with urgently needed analytical frameworks and on-the-ground strategies for challenging structural injustice. The wide range of voices in this collection, spanning generations and social movements, remind us of the interconnectedness of our struggles against racism, militarism, violence, and injustice, and collectively urge us to build a unified, principled movement to resist intensified empire.” —Angela Y. Davis author, activist, and professor emerita, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Elizabeth Betita Martínez\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Betita Martínez is a Chicana feminist and a long-time community organizer, activist, author, and educator. She has written numerous books and articles on different topics relating to social movements in the Americas. Her best-known work is the bilingual 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, which later formed the basis for the educational video ¡Viva la Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History. Her work has been hailed by Angela Y. Davis as comprising \"one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era … [Martínez is] inimitable…irrepressible…indefatigable.\" Martínez began her political work in the early 1950s. She worked in New York for the United Nations Secretariat as a researcher on colonialism and decolonization in Africa. During the 1960s, Martínez served full-time in the civil rights movement with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South and as a coordinator of its New York office. In 1968, she moved to New Mexico to start a newspaper to support the Alianza Federal de Mercedes. Along with lawyer Beverly Axelrod, Martínez founded the bilingual movement newspaper El Grito del Norte, and co-founded and directed the Chicano Communications Center, a barrio-based organizing and education project. Since moving to the Bay Area in 1976, Martínez has organized around Latino community issues, taught women’s studies, conducted anti-racist training workshops, and worked with youth groups. She ran for governor of California on the Peace \u0026amp; Freedom Party ticket in 1982 and has received many awards from student, community, and academic organizations, including Scholar of the Year 2000 by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. She is the author of De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (1998), and editor of SNCC’s Letters From Mississippi (1964). In 1997, she and Phil Hutchings co-founded the Institute for MultiRacial Justice, which \"aims to strengthen the struggle against white supremacy by serving as a resource center to help build alliances among peoples of color and combat divisions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Mandy Carter\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMandy Carter began her long career as a human rights and nonviolent activist working with the War Resister's League (WRL) in San Francisco, beginning in 1969. A veteran of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People Campaign, Carter has been called “one of the nation’s leading African American lesbian activists” by the National Organization of Women. She has served on countless planning committees for national and regional lesbian and gay pride marches—including the steering committee for the historic 1987 March on Washington for Lesbians and Gays. As a staff member of the WRL’s Southeast regional office throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Carter worked on the Boards of the National Stonewall Democratic Federation, the Triangle Foundation, Equal Partners in Faith, and Ladyslipper Music. In 1992, Carter joined the staff of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington DC, serving as Public Policy Advocate with a particular focus on the religious and radical right's attacks on gays and lesbians through exploitation of the black community. In 1995, she returned to the south and founded North Carolina Mobilization '96, an electoral campaign organizing against long-time Senator Jesse Helms. She also has served as the national field director and board member of the National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum. Carter is a co-founder of Southerners on New Ground (SONG). In 2010, the National Black Justice Coalition featured Mandy in their “Jewel” column, noting that she is “a legend in the LGBT community, the Black community, and to all of us concerned about peace.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Matt Meyer\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatt Meyer is an educator-activist, based in New York City. Founding co-chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and former Chair of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED), Meyer has long worked to bring together academics and activists for lasting social change. A former public draft registration resister and chair of the War Resisters League, he continues to serve as convener of the War Resisters International Africa Working Group. With Bill Sutherland, Meyer authored Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation (2000), of which Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, \"Sutherland and Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics which too often divide progressive people… They have begun to develop a language which looks at the roots of our humanness.\" Meyer is author of Time is Tight: Transformative Education in Eritrea, South Africa, and the USA (2007), based in part on his experiences as Multicultural Coordinator for the NYC Board of Education's Alternative High Schools and Programs. He has edited the Fellowship of Reconciliation's Puerto Rico: The Cost of Colonialism; guest edited numerous special issues of Blackwell\/Sage Press’ professional journal Peace \u0026amp; Change; and—with Elavie Ndura-Ouedraogo—co-edited the two-volume series Seeds of New Hope: Pan African Peace Studies for the 21st Century (2009) and Seeds Bearing Fruit: Pan African Peace Action for the 21st Century (2010). Meyer is also a founder of the local anti-imperialist collective Resistance in Brooklyn, and editor of Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents From the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners (2008). Argentine Nobel Peace laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel has commented that “Meyer is a coalition-builder,” one who “provides tools for today’s activists” in his writings and work. Esquivel cited Let Freedom Ring, for which he provided the foreword, as “a welcome and important addition to the growing literature on U.S. human rights abuses.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Cornel West (Introduction)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. He has written 19 books and edited 13 books. He is best known for his classic Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his dear Brother, Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV Show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Alice Walker (Afterword\/poems)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlice Walker’s writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen million copies. Along with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Walker’s awards and fellowships include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a residency at Yaddo. In 2006, Walker was honored as one of the inaugural inductees into the California Hall of Fame. In 2007, Walker appointed Emory University as the custodian of her archive, which opened to researchers and the public on April 24, 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Sonia Sanchez (Afterword\/poems)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSonia Sanchez is a poet, mother, professor, and lecturer on Black Culture and Literature, Women’s Liberation, Peace, and Racial Justice. Sonia Sanchez is the author of over 16 books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Elizabeth Betita Martínez, Mandy Carter, Matt Meyer\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-480-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 608 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175098200157,"sku":"9781604864809","price":41.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1101_wehavenotbeenmoved3_0.jpg?v=1654987399"},{"product_id":"inside-out","title":"Inside\/Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Buck was a committed political radical, imprisoned for over thirty years for her revolutionary activities. She was also a prolific writer and poet, publishing her work in a prize-winning chapbook, an audio CD, and in various journals and anthologies. She received a PEN American Center prize for poetry in 2001. Buck was released from prison less than a month before her death at age sixty-two from uterine cancer. This selection of her finest poetry is a living testament to the fierce intelligence and huge compassion that inspired and informed her life, and to the transcendence of her poetic vision. \"Marilyn, of course references her situation in prison in many poems, but the overwhelming sense one has after reading Inside\/Out is that one has just experienced a woman who, though imprisoned, is utterly free. What we have in Marilyn Buck is a poet who is unafraid to confront the deepest parts of herself with an honesty consistent with the consciousness of a revolutionary. It is the uncovering and revealing of hope that many of her works manifest.\" — Jack Hirschman, poet laureate of San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Marilyn Buck\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780872865778\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 125 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: City Lights\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"City Lights","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175101050973,"sku":"9780872865778","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1076_insideout3_0.jpg?v=1654987421"},{"product_id":"truth-and-revolution-a-history-of-the-sojourner-truth-organization-1969-1986","title":"Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural transformations as it struggled to find its footing in a rapidly changing world. The unorthodox political agenda of the Sojourner Truth Organization represents a small but powerfully resonant thread running through this arc of history. Drawing on detailed archival research and oral interviews, Truth and Revolution skillfully combines social and intellectual history approaches to shed light on both the theory and the practice of STO. Perhaps most famous for its theoretical formulations of white skin privilege, the group also developed a novel analysis of class consciousness that reflected its commitment to an autonomist Marxism. In all the major arenas of its work—factory organizing, anti-imperialist solidarity, anti-nuclear and anti-fascist struggles, among many others—STO combined a strategic assessment of the urgent tasks facing an activist left with a theoretical sophistication that merits sustained attention. Historian Michael Staudenmaier also includes a final chapter linking the legacy of STO directly to the challenges facing twenty-first century radicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few revolutionary initiatives formed out of the struggles of the 1960s left such a profound intellectual and political legacy as the Sojourner Truth Organization. This deeply researched, balanced, and remarkable history shows how STO's practice intersected with its ideas, not only in relatively well-known campaigns attacking white-skin privilege but in shopfloor organizing and anti-imperialist solidarity as well.\" — Dave Roediger, co-author of The Production of Difference \"Michael Staudenmaier has uncovered a crucial story of the New Left, one that has escaped the attention of most scholars of the era. The members Sojourner Truth Organization would have never have been content with today's so-called online organizing. They went directly to the shop-floor to argue for a better world, where the 'white blindspot' was opened to new visions of solidarity and progress. Staudenmaeir's skilled prose and meticulous research critically honors this history and draws lessons for us today.\" — James Tracy, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times “Truth and Revolution is a guided tour of the worker militancy, revolutionary nationalist upsurge, and new social movement eruptions of the last forty years. Best of all, Staudenmaier breaks it all down for today’s social movements. Not to be missed.” — \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Staudenmaier is a veteran of anarchist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist movements, and is now a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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Zirin explores how NBA brawls highlight tensions beyond the arena, how the bold stances taken by sports unions can chart a path for the entire labor movement, and the unexplored political stirrings of a new generation of athletes who are no longer content to just “play one game at a time.” What’s My Name, Fool? draws on original interviews with former heavyweight champ George Foreman, Olympic athlete John Carlos, NBA player and anti-death penalty activist Etan Thomas, antiwar women’s college hoopster Toni Smith, Olympic Project for Human Rights leader Lee Evans and many others. It also unearths a history of athletes ranging from Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali to Billie Jean King, who charted a new course through their athletic ability and their outspoken views.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNamed of the UTNE Reader's \"50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World\", Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports for the Nation Magazine. He is their first sports writer in 150 years of existence. Winner of Sport in Society and Northeastern University School of Journalism's 2011 'Excellence in Sports Journalism' Award, Zirin is also the host of the popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. He has been called \"the best sportswriter in the United States,\" by Robert Lipsyte. Dave Zirin is, in addition, a columnist for SLAM Magazine and the Progressive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Beautifully illustrates the connection between sports, struggle, politics, and resistance.” — Chuck D; Public Enemy “Dave Zirin is an angry young man, and he's not bashful about telling you why—no quarter asked, no holds barred. In his new book, What's My Name, Fool?, he calls out the many inequities he sees on the level playing fields. It's good to read such an impassioned critic taking sport to task in a manner we haven't heard in some time.” — Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and HBO’s Real Sports “Dave Zirin is that rarest of commodities in sports writing: an original voice. His writing reveals the ever present but ignored bridge between sports and struggle. What's My Name, Fool? will be loved by both Athletes who hate politics and activists who hate sports . As for progressives who are closet sports fans, finally here is a book for you.” — Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Bay View “Dave Zirin is that rare thing—a writer who combines a passion for sport, deep knowledge of its history, and a fearlessly radical critique of the role the rich and powerful play in it.” — Mike Marqusee, author, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: David Zirin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781931859202\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 293 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175106916445,"sku":"9781931859202","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1073_whatsmyname3_0.jpg?v=1654987452"},{"product_id":"ashamed-to-die-silence-denial-and-the-aids-epidemic-in-the-south","title":"Ashamed to Die: Silence, Denial, and the AIDS Epidemic in the South","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy focusing on a small town in South Carolina, this study of the HIV\/AIDS crisis in the South reveals the hard truths of an ongoing and complex issue. Skerritt contends that the United States has failed to adequately address the threat of HIV and AIDS in communities of color and that taboos about love, race, and sexuality—combined with Southern conservatism, white privilege, and black oppression—continue to create an unacceptable death toll. The heartbreak of America’s failure comes alive through case studies of individuals such as Carolyn, a wild child whose rebellion coincided with the advent of AIDS, and Nita, a young woman searching for love and trapped in an abusive relationship. The results are most visible at the town’s segregated burial ground where dozens of young black men and women who have died from AIDS are laid to rest. Not only a call to action and awareness, this is a true story of how persons of faith, enduring love, and limitless forgiveness can inspire others by serving as guides for poor communities facing a public health threat burdened with conflicting moral and social conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Andrew J. Skerritt\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781569768143\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 306 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Lawrence Hill Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175107670109,"sku":"9781569768143","price":37.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1131_ashamedtodie3_0.jpg?v=1654987462"},{"product_id":"stand-up-struggle-forward-new-afrikan-revolutionary-writings-on-nation-class-and-patriarchy","title":"Stand Up Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings On Nation, Class and Patriarchy","description":"\u003cp\u003e“It was over 20 years ago that the book \u003cem\u003eMonster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e exploded on the scene and gave us all a front row seat to explore the genocidal brutality of the neo-colonial world of gangbanging. A world that exists at the expense of New Afrikan communities and New Afrikan youth in particular, through our social savage way of attempting to gain power through AK’s, bats and beat downs … it was in the belly of the beast (prison) that ‘Monster’ underwent a revolutionary transformation, dissecting and re-building himself from the inside out, slaying the colonial thug ‘Monster’ and emerging through a re-birth as ‘Sanyika Shakur,’ a New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist.” — from the Foreword by Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of writings by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, formerly known as Monster Kody Scott, includes several essays written from within the infamous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit in the period around the historic 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strike, as well as two interviews conducted just before and after his release in Black August 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShakur rejects the easy answers and false solutions of the neocolonial age—integration and racism, the colonial-criminal mentality and subservience to imperialism—as the “oppo-sames” that they are. Firmly rooted in the New Afrikan Communist tradition, he skillfully uses the tools of dialectical materialism to lay bare the deeper connections between racism, sexism, and homophobia and how these mental diseases relate to the ongoing capitalist (neo-)colonial catastrophe we remain trapped within. Defending the legacy of New Afrikans’ historic struggle for Land, Independence, and Socialism, Shakur spells out a uniquely liberatory Revolutionary Nationalist vision. Annihilating the “amerikan” mental fog that has new generations continuing to self-defeat rather than coming together against the real enemy, \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a battle cry against all forms of oppression. \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e also contains a valuable account of political repression in the California prison system, including several of the intelligence memoranda they were used to condemn Shakur to years of solitary confinement in Pelican Bay. These internal prison documents clearly show that this prolonged solitary confinement was a direct result of Shakur’s continuing promotion of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist politics. As such, they provide a clear example of the way in which solitary confinement continues to be used as a tool of political repression against thousands of prisoners in California today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead one of the essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"entry-title\"\u003eStudy and Struggle: An Overstanding\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWho Are We\u003c\/em\u003e, those of us who would build a national ‘black’ prisoners organization? There is much hard evidence to show that as each day passes, more and more ‘black’ prisoners identify themselves as \u003cem\u003eNew Afrikans\u003c\/em\u003e and work on behalf of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe New Afrikan Independence Movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e” (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eNotes from a New Afrikan P.O.W., Journal, Book Three\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"more-5604\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the expanse of a couple of decades, We’ve seen the political consciousness of prisoners grow in proportion with their overstanding of what it actually means to be a prisoner in amerikkka, but also as nationals of captive nations held in partial paralysis by u.s. imperialism. Prisoners have slowly begun to take an objective view of the matrix of u.s. colonialism from a dialectical perspective that informs Us that the settler government holds, dominates and exploits both external\/internal colonies. And that the old facade of “disadvantaged minorities” is giving way to the stark reality of submerged nations here under the blurry veneer of a so-called “united states.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis developing consciousness springs from a Revolutionary Nationalist overstanding of social development. Informed by even the most rudimentary application of dialectical materialism, one is easily drawn to the reality of New Afrika, Aztlan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and the Indigenous People being submerged and colonized – whole nations existing under the false patina of amerikkkanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe greater Our overstanding of this reality, the less We are believing in, or relying on, the old obviously false social construct of “race” to define Ourselves and other oppressed people. Color, or “race” as a binary term to describe the shallow differences between humans – which has no scientific basis in reality – is not a deep enough, not sound, or reasonable enough, overstanding We can see to explain, confront and resolve Our problems. It’s been said that “the color of freedom in amerikkka is green.” This tells Us something about the false construct of “race,” no? It hints at the \u003cem\u003efact\u003c\/em\u003e that under the rubble of “race” is bedrock. And that bedrock, that solid foundation, is economics. Is capitalism. We can’t even discuss, or We shouldn’t even discuss, “racism” without mentioning and combining it with capitalism. For capitalism built around it the social construct of “race” as a motto, a defense and a justification for prolonged activity. Capitalism is the \u003cem\u003ematerial \u003c\/em\u003emanifestation; “race” is the \u003cem\u003eshadow\u003c\/em\u003e, or immaterial reality of what’s casted – as a consequence of the original form. It’s not that it’s wholly unreal. We can \u003cem\u003esee \u003c\/em\u003eit. The shadow, i mean. We can even feel it, but it is but a reflection. We’ll exhaust Ourselves to the point of madness trying to combat it alone without applying destructive force to the material thing that it reflects. To be “anti-racist” is to be anti-capitalist. We become anti-racists by not using binary terms constructed to promote and sustain “race.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Any attempt to destroy ‘racism’ without an explicit link to the struggle against capitalism ultimately serves only to reinforce ‘racist’ ideology and to shield capitalism from attack.  On the other hand, an attempt to combat capitalism without an explicit link to anti-racist discourse and struggle allows capitalism to use the belief in ‘race’ held by oppressed peoples and appeal to the ‘racism’ of citizens of the oppressive state, thus undermining all revolutionary initiative. This combat also requires that we begin to de-link ourselves from the use of language that reinforces and reproduces racial ideology, e.g. the terms ‘white’ and ‘black’ in references to the identity of peoples.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrade Owusu Yaki Yakubu, \u003cem\u003eMeditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Our developing consciousness, which is necessarily New Afrikan, Revolutionary and Nationalist, We are needing new tools, new language, new ideas, means and ways to re-build Ourselves into a coherent whole for movement and struggle. We are talking about cadre development. This will come about only through arduous study and struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee, here’s the basic thing: if you are calling yourself a New Afrikan, then you are at once saying that you are \u003cem\u003enot \u003c\/em\u003ean amerikkkan (of any stripe). You are rejecting the reactionary\/colonial identity placed arbitrarily on you by the enemy culture. You are implying that you are a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika. Further, this means that you overstand that a \u003cem\u003eNew \u003c\/em\u003eAfrikan Nation exists and has existed, in north amerikkka, at least since 1660. Now, “nation” here is not to be confused with a \u003cem\u003estate \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003egovernment\u003c\/em\u003e. A nation is a cultural\/custom\/linguistic social development that is consolidated and evolves on a particular land mass and shares a definite collective awareness of itself. New Afrika, as a distinct entity, a total working-class \u003cem\u003enation\u003c\/em\u003e, has existed since 1660 here. The nation was given shape, name, general laws and a creed in 1968, with the founding of the Provisional Government by over 500 New Afrikan nationalists. Established at this historical convention was, The New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, Code of Umoja (New Afrikan Constitution) and The New Afrikan Creed. A President, Vice-Presidents, People’s Center Councils and a People’s Revolutionary Leadership Council were elected to designate New Afrikan Population Districts, set up registration for a New Afrikan census, etc. This was the forming of a \u003cem\u003estate\u003c\/em\u003e, an organized body designed to coherently give shape and form to the already long existing New Afrikan nation. So, We are not trying to “create” a nation – the nation exists. We are trying to agitate, educate and organize the nation for land, independence and socialism. This can only be realized through revolution. And despite what We’ve recently seen in North Africa with their “Arab Spring,” We are under no illusions about Our struggle here being a protracted, long drawn out, revolutionary war. And, truthfully, necessarily so. We have a lot of cleansing to do after having been existing so close to the seat of world power for so long. We overstand Our level of contamination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are talking about being ideologically consistent. About pushing a particular line. Again, i want to go to the Comrade Yaki because his instructions are profound:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Angolan, Russian, Algerian, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, Cuban, Korean, Tanzanian – these are nationalities. Our nationality is New Afrikan. We don’t refer to ourselves as ‘black’ because We don’t base our nationality (nor our politics) on ‘race’ or color or a biological element of our being. Social factors are the primary determinations of our national identity (and Our politics)”.\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the same reason, We don’t call ourselves “black” is also why We don’t call ourselves “African-American,” or “Negro,” “colored,” etc. These are \u003cem\u003echains, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich tie us to the plantation, to the colonial system. These are terms that substantiate, promote and sustain the colonial mentality and thus our oppression. Again, Comrade Yaki’s words instruct:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The ‘Native,’ the ‘Negro,’ the ‘colored,’ the ‘black’ and the ‘African-American’ have no identity apart from that given them by the colonizer – that is, not unless they RESIST colonialism, which entails: 1) their maintenance of an identity that is separate and distinct from that of the colonizer; 2) they begin to develop a NEW identity, through the process of ‘decolonization’ – through having remained separate and distinct, colonized people aren’t who they were prior to colonization and they can’t return to the past. Colonization has arrested their independent development, distorted who they are, and now they must become a NEW people during the process by which they regain their independence.”  (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet’s go a bit into this. Those who are calling themselves “African-Americans” are doing so for two real reasons. First, of course, there is an inherent overstanding that runs thoroughly through the New Afrikan nation that We are not \u003cem\u003ereally \u003c\/em\u003eamerikkkans. That We are in fact a people\/nation unto Ourselves. This used to be widely overstood with little notion of anything to the contrary. \u003cem\u003eNeo-\u003c\/em\u003ecolonialism has worked obsessively to change this awareness. The rapid de-colonization (“de-segregation”) of the nation, beginning in the late 50s, ushered in a new (neo) more thoroughly, and dare i say, \u003cem\u003erevolutionary\u003c\/em\u003e, form of control and exploitation: \u003cem\u003eneo-colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e. “Blacks” took over from “Negroes” to lead the masses into an integrated lockstep with capitalism, while they (the misleaders) were awarded nominal positions in local and regional government posts. Because the bourgeois media postulated these class enemies as being “successful,” in a new and improved amerikkka, it fostered  an image (crafted by Madison Avenue) that anybody could make it. “Now that segregation is over, you can grow up to be anything you want.” Except free, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more integration (which was supposed to mean “freedom and equality”) We got, the worst Our predicament became. The more bourgeois “freedom and equality” We struggled to obtain, the more critical our existence became, the stronger the “black” bourgeoisie got – compounded a hundred times by the u.s. ruling class. The stronger the “black” bourgeoisie became, the more Our revolutionary leadership was attacked, assassinated, imprisoned, or exiled. The more this became so, the worse the hoods got. The worse the hoods got, the more street orgs began to proliferate. More dope, more guns, more pigs – more prisons. This is what the losing of a sense of self brings. Integration \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eneo-colonialism. And it’s reactionary nationalism. But it would be unfair to say it’s not \u003cem\u003eprogress\u003c\/em\u003e. It \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eprogress – it’s just not progress in \u003cem\u003eOur \u003c\/em\u003einterest. We are moving forward, but it is towards Our annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “black” bourgeoisie worked in tandem with its masters to keep the chains on New Afrika. They overstood the strong Nationalist sentiment that ran through the nation. So in order to placate this sentiment and please their masters, the “black” bourgeoisie introduced the term “African-American.” A split personality that straddled an ocean and a colonial existence. But because our “leaders” said it was right and “after all” the masses said, “We are Africans” – Voila!  This, of course, is not scientific or a reflection of any real reality. It is a term used to maintain a colonial relationship with New Afrika – now being run by remote control through the antics and colorful animation of the “African-American” bourgeoisie. You see them in the Congressional Black Caucus, the higher echelons of the Prince Hall Masons, in the persons of Oprah, Jesse, Al Sharpton, Robert Johnson, etc. etc. They’ve been appointed by the u.s. ruling class to lead the masses – into a neo-colonial marriage with amerikkka. The “African American” bourgeoisie is conjoined (face to ass) with the u.s. ruling class and no surgery short of protracted people’s war will lose them and free Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe masses, by and large, are innocently confused – they can be redeemed. It is Our job as cadres to do that. Which is why it is so important to study and struggle – to build up your revolutionary ideological, philosophical and theoretical overstanding so as to be able to distinguish the real from the false. The righteous from the reactionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our vision must be emphasized in opposition to the imperialist and neo-colonialist perspectives. Our vision demands that We stress the need to establish New Afrikan state power as the PREREQUISITE for the long term resolution of colonial violence, bad housing, miseducation, poor health, no jobs, etc. At present, the orientation underlying mass struggle is primarily neo-colonialist. We ask the u.s. government to do things for Us. Our struggle is AGAINST the u.s. government, to secure the power to prevent it from doing things to us and so that We can do things for ourselves, under our own government. Each issue that the masses struggle around must be infused (by the people’s vanguard) with the idea than none of our problems can be solved until We achieve national independence.”\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eVita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal, Book 12.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing then, i’d like to simply emphasize the need to study and struggle. Study Revolutionary Nationalism and struggle around the issues that are affecting Us. And, too, it’s a beautiful thing to see more prisoners becoming conscious of themselves as New Afrikans. This too is a prerequisite to getting free. Change your mind and you can change your conditions. Overstanding and appreciating the reality of one’s situation gives one a greater sense of appreciation for other oppressed nationals in the same or similar predicaments. I’m gonna fall out with a quote by Comrade Yaki that pretty much sums it all up – Though first, I’d like to send a clenched fisted salute to all the comrades in Canada that make 4SM possible, as well as to Comrade Jaan Laaman, for his outstanding editorial work and his continuous revolutionary commitment. We feel you!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Anyone claiming to attack racism while claiming that racism is the only thing wrong with this system, is either terribly confused or an outright enemy of the people and their interests. If We truly wanna get rid of racism, We have to overthrow capitalism … first.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrad Yaki, \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRe-Build\u003cbr\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003cbr\u003ePelican Bay SHU – 47ADM*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*47 years after the death of Malik (Malcolm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i love his book \u003cem\u003eMonster\u003c\/em\u003e, because his military approach in things sets it up. One time there was a shooting in my block, and i asked the brother: ‘What do you think you are doing? Here, read this!’ And i gave him a copy of Monster. He took it real serious. Sanyika can reach people i can’t. Checking out his newest book, i’m glad he’s on our side.” —  Hondo T’chikwa, Spear \u0026amp; Shield Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Pentagon knows that the most famous soldier of his times never wore their uniform, but fought on the oppressed streets of L.A. Now, Sanyika Shakur is still a soldier for his people, but is a revolutionary teacher as well. His words here, his politics, are uncompromising as iron.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i thought i’d wait a long time after \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e for a new work that would provide a major building block to rebuild the movement. But here it is. 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First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways controversial within the establishment Left \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the fact that America’s white citizenry have never supported themselves but have always resorted to exploitation and theft, culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life. As recounted in painful detail by Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes “Cash \u0026amp; Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations” and an interview with author J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical analysis of the colonization of the Americas that overturns the 'official' narrative of poor and dispossessed European settlers to reveal the true nature of genocidal invasion and land theft that has occurred for over five hundred years. If you want to understand the present, you must know the past, and this book is a vital contribution to that effort.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ2In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gord-hill\" title=\"Gord Hill\"\u003eGord Hill\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e500 Years of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Great works measure up, inspire higher standards of intellectual and moral honesty, and, when appreciated for what they are, serve as a guide for those among us who intend a transformation of reality. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e should serve as a reminder (to anyone who needs one) of the genocidal tendencies of the empire, the traitorous interplay between settler-capitalist, settler-nondescript, and colonial flunkies.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e, Black Liberation Army\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When \u003ce\u003e“When \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e hit the tiers of San Quentin, back in 1986, it totally exploded our ideas about what we as a new class of revolutionaries thought we knew about a so-called ‘united working class’ in amerika. And what's more, it brought the actual contradictions of national oppression and imperialism into sharp focus. It was my first, and as such my truest, study of the actual mechanics behind the expertly fabricated illusion of an amerikan proletariat.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMonster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/e\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the United States. On the subject of his own past, and the writing of \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e, he has said:\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then. It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.'s 1950's San Fernando Valley. Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation. The wife lost it and screamed, \" People like you don't need graduations!\" A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the \"colored\" military draft. And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers' strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Have been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can't believe i've been so dumb so often. In 1975, while mostly active doing Afrikan liberation movement support with radical exiles from various countries, i started writing a historical investigation into the puzzling class politics of euro-amerikan workers. Which i naively thought would only be a quick movement paper. Eight years later what became re-titled as \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e was finished. 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If you only want the ebook, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/divided-world-divided-class-global-political-economy-and-the-stratification-of-labour-under-capitalism-second-edition-copy\"\u003eclick here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class\u003c\/em\u003e charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world system, from its roots in colonialism to its birth and eventual maturation into a full-fledged middle class in the age of imperialism. It argues that pervasive national, racial and cultural chauvinism in the core capitalist countries is not primarily attributable to ‘false class consciousness’, ideological indoctrination or ignorance as much left and liberal thinking assumes. 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The book is intended as a major contribution to debates on the international class structure and socialist strategy for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis second edition includes new material such as data on growing inequality between the richest and poorest countries; data illustrating rising real wages in Imperial Britain; explication of the concepts of value, monopoly capital and unequal exchange and their ramifications for the global class structure; discussion of social imperialism on the left; responses to critiques surrounding the thesis of mass embourgeoisement through imperialism; as well as further information on a range of subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Dr. Cope presents a thought provoking study of the political economy of the world system by focusing on the concept of a global labour aristocracy. 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The book is a valuable contribution to globalization critique.” — Gernot Köhler, Professor (retired) of Computer Studies at the Department of Computing and Information Management, Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Wage System: A Study of International Wage Differences\u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGlobal Economics: An Introductory Course\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How can we link the division between the poor and the rich people in one and any country and the division between the rich and poor nations together into an analytical framework? The answer lies in the concept of ‘the embourgeoisement of the working people’ of the rich core countries and the fact that colonialism and national chauvinism have gone hand in hand so as to breed a ‘labour aristocracy’. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about fairness. Zak Cope brings together brilliantly the concepts of nation, race and class analytically under the umbrella of capitalism, by situating racism in the class structure and by locating class in the context of the global economy.” — Mobo Gao, Chair of Chinese Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute at the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Adelaide, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a surprising book. At a time when confusion about Globalization surrounds us, Zak Cope pulls us towards what is fundamental. He outlines the 19th \u0026amp; 20th century recasting of the diverse human world into rigid forms of oppressed colonized societies and oppressor colonizing societies. A world divide still heavily determining our lives. Working rigorously in a marxist-leninist vein, the author focuses on how imperialism led to a giant metropolis where even the main working class itself is heavily socially bribed and loyal to capitalist oppression. Much is laid aside in his analysis, in order to concentrate on only what he considers the most basic structure of all in world capitalist society. This is writing both controversial and foundational at one and the same time.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Divided World Divided Class is valuable to a wide audience, especially those unfamiliar with the history of imperialism, the unequal exchange paradigm, and its impact on class structure. It should be a wake-up call to advocates for the exploited classes of the global South as they attempt to develop a twenty-first-century praxis, and as they engage with advocates for workers in the global North—without denying activists in the global North a role in helping to change the world in favor of the exploited peoples of the world. It reaffirms, with an impressive breadth and depth of evidence and argument, that the Northern workers must help fight for democratic sovereignty in the global South—even if it appears to be against their material interests to do so.\" — Professor Timothy Kerswell, University of Macau, Department of Government and Public Administration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eKersplebedeb Statement on Zak Cope's About Face (Aug. 16 2024)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTLDR: Zak Cope has renounced his former anti-imperialist views and has embraced “the West,” zionism, and the legacies and ongoing realities of colonialism and imperialism. Kersplebedeb Publishing stands by Zak’s previous work and is saddened to see him now embracing the structures of oppression, exploitation, and genocide which he previously had stood against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLONGER VERSION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe at Kersplebedeb Publishing were surprised to learn (to say the least) that Zak Cope, author of \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e—which we published two editions of in 2012 and 2015, respectively—has had a dramatic change of opinion on seemingly every aspect of political economy in the last year (he implies that it was sparked by the events of October 7, 2023). In the \u003cem\u003ePalgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics \u003c\/em\u003e(2024), which Cope edited and to which he contributed two chapters, he describes his “personal and intellectual commitment to free markets, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law and the conservative and classical liberal values that uphold the same.” He declares his support for “the people of... Israel in their just struggle to overcome the imperialist and totalitarian forces bent on their destruction.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite this description of the opponents of the zionist state as “imperialist,” it is not clear whether Cope—who has been mainly known as a prominent theorist of anti-imperialism and defender of the theory of a global labour aristocracy—now thinks imperialism does not exist or just that it is a good thing. He compares foreign direct investment from the Global North into the Global South to “people who spend less than they earn... loan[ing] to those who spend more than they earn.” He denies that there is anything morally problematic in this relationship, arguing to the contrary that “free trade can and has led to historically unprecedented reductions in poverty rates worldwide.” He states that “Europe’s industrialization and economic take-off was largely endogenous, driven by technological innovation, entrepreneurship, liberal institutions, and scientific culture,” while “Colonialism and the slave trade played a relatively minor role.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCope now espouses right-wing shibboleths, such as the historically ignorant view that Nazi Germany was socialist (!) or that a domination of the social sciences by Marxism and postcolonialism (“the academic study of the cultural, political, and economic legacies of colonialism and imperialism,” as he defines it) has “seriously curtailed academic freedom.” He derisively refers to the concept of “European, Western, and ‘White’ oppression, exploitation, and racism,” a use of scare quotes implying that he views the entire concept of whiteness as being of questionable analytic utility, at a minimum. (Elsewhere, he uses scare quotes on “First World” and “Third World,” as well as “core” and “periphery.”) He approvingly cites Thatcher’s aphorism about socialism being broken by its dependence on an exhaustible supply of “other people’s money.” He rejects the labour theory of value and calls “counter[ing] anti-capitalism with reasoned, fact-based, and historically grounded argument... one of the most urgent cultural and political challenges of our time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a footnote, he “retract[s]” \u003cem\u003eDivided World \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Wealth of Some Nations \u003c\/em\u003e(which he published with Pluto Press in 2019) for the reason that they are “based on Marxist views that are outright false or misleadingly one-sided.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe share Cope’s desire to make a clear distinction between his past work and his output today and going forward—barring a second 180° degree rotation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCope’s argument in \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class\u003c\/em\u003e and similar writings was nothing more nor less than an assertion of the humanity of the people of the Third World (or Global South) and an attempt to explain their dehumanization in the realm of ideas (racism and national chauvinism) by reviewing their position in the realm of economics, as those who produce most of the world's enormous wealth yet receive scarcely any of its benefit. If there was a weakness to his approach, it was his reliance on a lot of numbers and statistics and math (themselves often the mystifying product of bourgeois economics) to show what could be illustrated much more simply and clearly in more concrete terms. But so it goes with “immanent critique”—our thought at the time was (and is now) that given the use of bourgeois economics to muddy the waters in order to hide the reality of imperialist exploitation, that there was value in using it to clarify and demystify.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCope’s new position—which comes as an utter shock to us, and which we find difficult to believe he can himself take seriously—does indeed amount to a complete reversal of this: a dehumanization of the global majority and an obfuscation and denial of the racism and national chauvinism to which they are subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZak, wtf?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote to Readers: Kersplebedeb is making the ebook version of Divided World Divided Class, which we still consider to be a valuable contribution to understanding the world we live in, available free of charge via the leftwingbooks.net website: \u003ca href=\"www.leftwingbooks.net\/\/divided-world-divided-class-ebook\"\u003ewww.leftwingbooks.net\/\/divided-world-divided-class-ebook\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175193981021,"sku":"9781894946681","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/coverDWDC2.jpg?v=1654987826"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-16-july-2014","title":"Upping The Anti #16 (July 2014)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe July 2014 issue of this canada-based journal of radical theory and action; below is the editorial committee's introduction and guide to Upping The Anti #16:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCara Fabre, Lindsay Hart, Matt Hayter, Sharmeen Khan, Manuel Marqués -Bonilla, Amelia Spedaliere, and Andrew Winchur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e 16 goes to press, we find many of the uprisings and struggles that once inspired new hopes have now been bated. The Arab Spring resulted in regime changes and a reconfiguration of imperial dynamics in most countries, while in Syria the war continues, with no clear trajectory of it ending. The indignados and Occupy Wall Street have changed the political landscape, but the Right has adapted, upping their anti against people of colour, immigrants, women, LGBTQ folks, and workers alike. The Right’s success in many governments continues to cement a neo-liberal agenda. Most recently, we see the beginning of the Trans Pacific Partnership but have yet to see a real opposition to it. While this may reveal instances of weakness, of course, we continue to resist. We continue to be inspired by the Chicago teachers’ strike and the Québec student strike, each of which effectively linked the struggles against oppression, capitalist exploitation, and imperialism. More recently, we have witnessed the fast food workers strike in the US go global, while Brazil erupts in protests triggered by the World Cup. However, the suppression of most uprisings and the limits of successful fights in the face of a strong, well-organized adversary should illuminate the magnitude of resistance work ahead. Such work needs to create a form of organization that will bring together those efforts and challenge capitalism and its forms of oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe have recently lost a comrade in the struggle to challenge these systems. We open UTA 16 by honouring our friend and former UTA editor, Ali Mustafa, with an obituary written by Élise Thorburn and Irina Ceric. Ali’s life was extinguished with the explosion of a barrel bomb in Syria. His loss was felt all around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt Upping the Anti, we believe that the organization capable of challenging capitalism, imperialism, and oppression will necessarily come out of the intersection of different struggles. This issue includes several pieces that seek to forge such intersections. We have included several pieces that deal with healthcare, a hotly contested space in which many of our multifaceted struggles are waged. We have also included pieces that deal with struggles focused on climate change, feminism, migration, and access to education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our first article, Martha Roberts connects healthcare – and midwifery practice in particular – to revolutionary challenges to systems of oppression in “Liberatory Midwifery Practice.” Then, Paul Messersmith-Glavin discusses the challenges of connecting anti-capitalist struggles to environmental organizing in Portland, Oregon in his piece entitled “Organizing Against Climate Catastrophe.” Our last article, “Students Not Investors” by Martin Roberts, points to some of the most insidious aspects of capitalism that became apparent during the Québec student strike, which future organizing needs to address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur interviews section begins with Roshan A. Jahangeer’s discussion with Délice Igicari Mugabo, a feminist organizer working in Québec, about the Québec Charter of Values and her involvement in the Federation of Women of Québec, as well as the importance of an intersectional approach to feminist organizing. We also include recent interviews by Kieran Aarons and Lulu with refugees in Germany at Oranienplatz and in residential centres outside of Berlin, who discuss the struggles and tactics that have shaped their resistance to unjust immigration laws and regulations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the trajectory of these struggles, our roundtable section opens with a moderated discussion by Tom Warren, a health organizer in Vancouver, between Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, Martha Roberts, and Aiyanas Ormond, organizers working around radical health initiatives. They reflect on their work and experiences in the health sector and its connection to broader social justice issues. We then bring to you a roundtable with Karin Baqi, Shireen Soofi, Khaoula Bengezi, Josee Oliphant, Amy Darwish, and Rosalind Wong, organizers for migrant justice in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Hamilton, who discuss Sanctuary\/Solidarity City campaigns and the successes, changes, and challenges within this movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUTA 16’s book reviews section starts off with Patrick Dedauw’s analysis of Safe Space: Gay Neighbourhood History and the Politics of Violence by Christina Hanhardt, in which he assesses Hanhardt’s history of urban LGBTQ activist movements and applies some lessons from the book to current LGBTQ organizing in Montreal. Next, Jannie Wing-sea Leung delves into the anthology Comrades In Health: US Health Internationalists Abroad and at Home to examine its importance to the work of radical health practitioners. Finally, Usman Mushtaq, Leslie Muñoz, and Vino Shanmuganathan draw from Harsha Walia’s Undoing Border Imperialism principles for intersectional, accountable organizing between migrant justice activists and struggles against settler colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the publication of Upping the Anti Issue 15, our Editorial Committee has undergone some changes: Élise Thorburn has taken maternity leave, Robyn Letson has moved to Halifax and continues work with us as associate editor. Most recently, Matt Hayter stepped down in order to attend to his academic responsibilities. Four people joined the editorial committee at different moments: Amelia Spedaliere, Andrew Winchur, Lindsay Hart, and Manuel Marqués-Bonilla.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are happy to have built back the capacity of the Editorial Committee, but getting there has taken time. This issue comes late and without an editorial. For the first time, we have decided not to include one in order to focus on production. This does not mean that we do not have an editorial direction or that we have lost the principles of non-sectarianism and connecting anti-oppression, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism. We anticipate that readers will note our political direction from the pieces we’ve chosen to publish this issue. We continue to have involved political discussions and will include the editorial absent this time around in the next issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are grateful to the people who collaborated on different parts of this issue. Rita Kamacho has joined the Publishing Committee as our graphic designer. Geordie Dent has helped us with our finances and much needed fundraising. Judith Muster translated the French portion of the O-platz interviews. Lastly, we want to thank the people who helped us with copyediting and proofreading: Rita Camacho, Leslie Muñoz, Amy Saunders, Sarah Miller, Nate Prior, Elizabeth Farries, Tristan Sturm, Élise Thorburn, Nicole Leach, Jody Smith and Robyn Hartley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs usual, we have pushed the authors, interviewees, and participants in roundtables to connect forms of oppression with capitalism and imperialism. We hope that the pieces they have produced will be useful in articulating larger demands and building the overarching and coordinating organizations that we lack and urgently need. We welcome criticism in this context, as well as your pitches for articles, roundtables, interviews, and book reviews for Issue 17 of Upping the Anti. You can send us your letters and pitches at uppingtheanti@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn struggle and solidarity,\u003cbr\u003e\nCara Fabre, Lindsay Hart, Matt Hayter, Sharmeen Khan, Manuel Marqués -Bonilla, Amelia Spedaliere, and Andrew Winchur\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, June 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: UTA16\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 161 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175199027293,"sku":"UTA 16","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/uppinttheanti16.jpg?v=1654987835"},{"product_id":"learning-from-an-unimportant-minority","title":"Learning from an Unimportant Minority","description":"\u003cp\u003eRace is all around us, as one of the main structures of capitalist society. Yet, how we talk about it and even how we think about it is tightly policed. Everything about race is artificially distorted as a white\/Black paradigm. Instead, we need to understand the imposed racial reality from many different angles of radical vision. In this talk given at the 2014 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, J. Sakai shares experiences from his own life as a revolutionary in the united states, exploring what it means to belong to an “unimportant minority.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/banner_tan.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"banner_tan\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7450\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/banner_tan.jpg\" style=\"height:319px; width:410px\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuoting from the book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRace is notoriously slippery, awkward to hold onto as a subject, yet totally all around us. Totally. All the time, every day, we breathe it; \u003cem\u003eafter all, it is us\u003c\/em\u003e, so we can’t ever be far from it. This seeming contradiction of what should be so simple being endlessly complicated in society is because how we think about race, how we talk about race … capitalism is constantly trying to police this. They don’t want to neaten it, they actually want to constrict it and keep remaking it in their own distorted images and stamping it on our faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo in u.s. society ...  capitalism pushes thinking and talking about race into the dominant form of a white\/Black paradigm. Where everything is supposed to be arranged according to the relationship between white men—who are defined as: What’s “normal”, the standard—and New Afrikan people—who are indirectly or covertly depicted as incomplete or deficient models of the first. So that the supposed goal of capitalistic “antiracism” is that eventually at some point everyone will be exactly like white men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWell, we don’t have to comment really on that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInto this paradigm, everyone else—“unimportant minorities”—are essentially crammed and flattened into that two-dimensional story, according to some always shifting order that they have, judging by how important or unimportant they think we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis raises a question: What is an unimportant minority? Am not going to answer that, but let me point you in a certain direction ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"backcover_col\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8554\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backcover_col.jpg\" style=\"height:600px; width:499px\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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Teasing out racist errors and anti-racist insights within this history, Biel reveals a century-long struggle to assert the centrality of the most exploited within the struggle against capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe roles of key figures in the Marxist-Leninist canon -- Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao -- within this struggle are explored, as are those of others whose work may be less familiar to some readers, such as Sultan Galiev, Lamine Senghor, Lin Biao, R.P. Dutt, Samir Amin, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEurocentrism and the Communist Movement was written in the context of the declining British Maoist movement of the late 1980s. As Robert Biel explains in his preface to this new edition,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The work responded to a strong sense that the important task was to construct a Marxist theory of political economy which could reflect the real relationships in the contemporary world system. That was the constructive task but, before we could attempt it, we also had to conduct a negative task -- one of demolition: to identify and remove the blockage that stood in our way. This blockage was the thing we identified as Eurocentrism, a trend which imprisoned theory in an economistic and mechanical framework, denying the real dynamics of history in which the world outside the major European powers has always played such a major role, and does so still in the form of the liberation movements against all forms of oppression and neo-colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"On the basis of the research conducted in the current book, I felt I was in a position to begin the constructive task, reflected in my book \u003cem\u003eThe New Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e (2000). In this book, I sought to show that the superficial consolidation of world capitalism (then still in a somewhat triumphalist phase) was premised on an intensification of capitalism’s fundamental contradictions -- on the destruction of human resources and the physical environment—and that the different forms of alienation highlighted by Marx are still fully present, and more specifically, that the global order remains profoundly racist. In my most recent book, \u003cem\u003eThe Entropy of Capitalism \u003c\/em\u003e(2012), I have described a system now beginning to unravel under the force of these contradictions. In this sense, Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement forms the beginning of a trilogy, the more destructive and explicitly polemical part, aiming to clear the terrain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn pursuit of this \"destructive\", anti-racist and anti-colonial goal, Biel has made an important contribution to understanding the development of Marxist thought in the 19th and 20th centuries, with strategic implications for our current revolutionary project:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Declining capitalism seems locked in a death-embrace with the symptoms of its own decay. While going to its own grave, it is determined to drag humanity down with it. To reverse this tendency is the task now facing the left.  ...  Where the system marginalises the periphery, the excluded, we must place them in the centre of the picture. ...  It is not certain that the radical forces will be able to seize this chance and rescue humanity. But, if armed with a historical understanding which identifies the most intensely oppressed and the most creative forces, it will indeed be equipped to rise to the challenge.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Robert Biel’s Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement is a conscientious and well-researched effort to present Eurocentrism as a colonial, racist and social-chauvinist mentality and phenomenon. It decries this problem as having overvalued European developments and influence under the rubric of ‘progress’, depreciated the history and dynamic of the oppressed peoples and nations, subordinated their revolutionary role and aspirations to the European states and industrial proletariat and in effect favoured colonialism and the slave trade and the entire train of consequences up to neocolonialism and neoliberalism.” -- Professor José María Sison, chairperson of the International Coordinating Committee, International League of Peoples’ Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Biel challenges not only Eurocentrism but the corresponding economic determinism that has frequently limited the scope and reach of radical Left social movements.  I found myself thinking about the famous phrase, attributed to Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, to the effect that ‘...the truth is always revolutionary.’  To which I would add, no matter how challenging it may be to address it.” -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author of \u003cem\u003eSolidarity Divided\u003c\/em\u003e; syndicated columnist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A long overdue second appearance as it was singularly the most outstanding contribution in the checkered history of the anti-revisionist movement in Britain … an exciting, fertile exploration to developing the need to make concrete and relevant the general theses adopted in the 1960s.” -- Sam Richards, \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism Online\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Biel teaches political ecology at University College London and is the author of The New Imperialism and The Entropy of Capitalism. 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Integrating gender and class into the discussion of the Chican@ nation, this book frames the struggle in a much needed analysis of history. \u003cem\u003eChicano Power and the Struggle for Aztlán\u003c\/em\u003e lays the groundwork for the way forward for our struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead about:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe true history of Mexico and Amerika and the birth of the Chican@ nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eMany revolutionary heroes of the Chican@ people\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eModern torture methods used against conscious Chican@s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe class makeup of the nation today\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe way forward for the national liberation movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe principal authors, Cipactli of the Brown Berets - Prison Chapter and Ehecatl, have served long prison sentences due to their class and nationality, and have worked many years as members of United Struggle from Within, the anti-imperialist prisoner organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length publication to come out of a MIM(Prisons)-led study group. 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Newton's concept of revolutionary intercommunalism, the science of dialictical and historical materialsm, the practice of democratic centralism, as well as current events ranging from u.s. imperialist designs in Africa to national oppression of New Afrikans within u.s. borders. And much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Professor Jared Ball explains in his preface,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Rashid represents the fear expressed by COINTELPRO’s fearful question: What happens if this radicalism reaches successive generations and then explicitly calls for the same and more in their time? He both articulates to his contemporaries and those coming behind him the context in which their art exists, the shifts in the landscape that take us from African medallion hip-hop to the bling era. He can also demonstrate with wondrous skill the power artists have in articulating those same ideas, critiques and concepts of revolution. 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Each of these phases of U.S. history has used its racialization of class relations to render its class exploitation extreme. As with all exploitation, there is resistance. Today, Rashid’s is one of the most powerful voices of that resistance.”\u003cbr\u003e\nSteve Martinot, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Rule of Racialization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kevin \"Rashid\" Johnson's \u003cem\u003ePanther Vision\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary testimony to the human capacity to struggle against oppression.  Johnson, a Virginia prisoner, who has been moved to Oregon and Texas, is a radical writer, artist, and organizer and co-founder and current Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC). The theme of struggle against capitalism and white supremacy as central to revolutionary change runs throughout this collection of thirty-eight articles (written between 2005 and 2015) and fifty-five, often extraordinary, drawings – most done with only a pen. \u003cem\u003ePanther Vision\u003c\/em\u003e breaks out of the walls of physical imprisonment to treat such topics as politics, history, theory, organization, Troy Davis, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown. It discusses well-known figures such as Marx, Lenin, Mao, Angela Davis, George Jackson, Ella Baker, Huey P. Newton, Assata Shakur, Kwame Nkrumah, Amilcar Cabral, Howard Zinn, George Jackson, and lesser known, but important writers such as Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen. \"Rashid\" Johnson's \u003cem\u003ePanther Vision\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable achievement -- the power of his writings, art, and thought cannot be jailed and will continue to reach wider audiences and grow in importance.\" -- Jeffrey B. 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The only question is, Which side are you on in the struggle against the violence that is white supremacy and policing? \u003cem\u003eTaking Sides\u003c\/em\u003e supplies an ethical compass and militant map of the terrain, arguing not for reform of structurally brutal institutions but rather for their abolition. Its thirteen essays are sharp interventions that take particular aim at the role of nonprofits, “ally” politics, and “peace police” in demobilizing rebellions against hierarchical power. The authors offer tools to hone strategies and tactics of resistance, and hold out the promise of robust, tangible solidarity across racial and other lines, because in the battle for systemic transformation, there are no outside agitators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTaking Sides \u003c\/em\u003eis arriving right when we need it, a tool to infuse complex contemporary movement conversations with useful accounts of our movement histories and insightful analysis about how we practice solidarity. It brings deep thinking about recent flash points into ongoing dialogues about leadership, strategy, and infrastructure in ways that shed new light on difficult questions. 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Collectively, the writings serve as essential tools for those seeking to build a new world in the shell of the old.\"  —Luis A. Fernandez, author of \u003cem\u003ePolicing Dissent and Shutting Down the Streets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Over the past fifteen years, radicals of many colors and political stripes have resurrected the unfinished business of confronting white supremacy within and outside social movements. Their contributions have been many, and their hard work beyond question. This collection takes the conversation a step further—dispatches from a work in progress that stretches back past Harper’s Ferry to the first Indian uprising on this continent. Anyone who has struggled with bridging the gap between “working for” and “working with” in their activism would be well served by these crucial contributions.\"  —James Tracy, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eHillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book gathers some of the most exciting analyses coming from today’s battles against state violence in North America. Here is a movement coming of age, battling white supremacy and settler colonialism with creativity and collectivity. Organizing produces both new ideas and the reminders we need to hear: not allies but accomplices, not complacency but resistance, not reform but abolition. The authors help us rethink how we organize ourselves to meet the urgent challenges of our era.Taking Sides is written from and for all those engaged in struggle against a racist state, with dreams of a better freedom.\"  —Dan Berger, author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTaking Sides \u003c\/em\u003ecompiles essential essays for street fighters, land defenders, and anticolonial accomplices. Its words challenge the current pacifist and NGO-led narratives that seek to manage and disarm people-powered rebellions on Turtle Island, while inspiring readers to go out and fight side by side.\"  —Franklin López, subMedia.tv\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eBrave Motherfuckers: Reflections on Past Struggles to Abolish White Supremacy | Michael Staudenmaier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Poor Person’s Defense of Riots: Practical Looting, Rational Riots, and the Shortcomings of Black Liberalism | Delio Vasquez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eDecolonize Together: Moving beyond a Politics of Solidarity toward a Politics of Decolonization | \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eDangerous Allies | by Tipu’s Tiger A Critique of Ally Politics | M.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAccomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex | Indigenous Action Media\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eCoconspirators | Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eOutside Agitators | J. 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Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it wasn’t easy. Misogyny, sexism, abusive fans, class and color blindness, and all-out racism were foes, especially for Gonzales, a Xicana and the only person of color in the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike touring rock bands before them, the unapologetically feminist Spitboy preferred Scrabble games between shows rather than sex and drugs, and they were not the angry manhaters that many expected them to be. Serious about women’s issues and being the band that they themselves wanted to hear, a band that rocked as hard as men but sounded like women, Spitboy released several records and toured internationally. The memoir details these travels while chronicling Spitboy’s successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFully illustrated with rare photos and flyers from the punk rock underground, this fast-paced, first-person recollection is populated by scenesters and musical allies from the time including Econochrist, Paxston Quiggly, Neurosis, Los Crudos, Aaron Cometbus, Pete the Roadie, Green Day, Fugazi, and Kamala and the Karnivores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The Spitboy Rule is a compelling and insightful journey into the world of ’90s punk as seen through the eyes of a Xicana drummer who goes by the nickname Todd. Todd stirs the pot by insisting that she plays hardcore punk, not Riot Grrrl music, and inviting males to share the dance floor with women in a respectful way. This drummer never misses a beat. Read it!”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Alice Bag, singer for the Bags, author of \u003cem\u003eViolence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Best punk memoir that I’ve ever had the privilege of reading. In a punk scene dominated by middle-class, white males, you can’t forget Spitboy, four brave women playing music with the intensity of an out-of-control forest fire. Gonzales’s involvement and presence in the punk scene, in particular, was significant because she represented a radical, feminist person of color, and she reflected a positive change in the scene for the Bay Area. Her memoir, chronicling her unique experience and perspective, occupies an important moment in the punk saga. 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Briskly told in clean, conversational prose, The Spitboy Rule is an entertaining read and functions as an important historical, critical, and sociopolitical document of pre-internet DIY music.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Jesse Michaels, vocalist for Operation Ivy and author of \u003cem\u003eWhispering Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichelle Cruz Gonzales played drums and wrote lyrics for three bands during the 1980s and 1990s: Bitch Fight, Spitboy, and Instant Girl. Her writing has been published in anthologies, literary journals, and \u003cem\u003eHip Mama\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. Michelle teaches English and creative writing at Las Positas College, and lives with her husband, son, and their three Mexican dogs in Oakland, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMartín Sorrondeguy was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, raised in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, and has called San Francisco home for the last ten years. 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No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant is an attempt to examine this phenomenon through the lens of one case, the trial of former Bay Area Rapid Transit Police officer Johannes Mehserle for the murder of 22-year old Oscar Grant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn Jan. 1, 2009, Oscar Grant was murdered for the first time; he would be murdered by the media and by the courts soon thereafter. Every last one of Oscar's murderers has gotten away with this crime. Mehserle, the triggerman, spent a combined total of 12 months in jail, doing less time than Michael Vick (sentenced to 23 months; served approximately 20 months) for running an illegal dog-fighting ring, and Plaxico Burress (sentenced to 24 months; served approximately 21 months) for shooting himself in the leg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeminist thinker bell hooks has often described the United States as being a \"white supremacist patriarchal state.\" Although Black women are by no means spared from state-sanctioned violence, hooks' analysis speaks to the reason why that violence is most often directed against Black male bodies. As a witness to the state-sanctioned violence that was done to Oscar Grant before and during the trial of his murderer, it is important that the story of Oscar Grant's multiple murders be told, as well as the voice of the witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIda B. Wells-Barnett took on the project of documenting numerous instances of state-sanctioned violence and aggressively organizing against it - nationally and internationally - through her writings, oratory and coalition work. No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant will stand as both testament to that work and as an extension of it here in the 21st Century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“No Doubt” is the chilling and compelling story of the 2009 murder of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by a BART police officer. It is also the story of the ways in which racism and white privilege infect America’s criminal justice system, media and society, and encourage, perpetuate, and justify the oppression and devaluing of the lives of people of color. 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His support of Black liberation as a method of freeing the world is to be studied, appreciated, and applied.” —Jared A. Ball, author of \u003cem\u003eI Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, and professor of Media and Africana Studies at Morgan State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“If we want to organize white people against racism and for racial justice, if you want to build up a broad-based majority for economic, racial, and gender justice, if you are enraged at the devastation of structural inequality in our lives and on our planet, then this book is key.  Class inequality is organized through white supremacy, and the ruling class strategy of divide and rule of pitting working class and poor white people against communities of color, must be understood.  David Gilbert gives us historical analysis to understand this ruling class strategy, and how we can unite white people across class to a collective liberation vision with racial justice at the center.” —Chris Crass, author of \u003cem\u003eTowards the “Other America”: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Gilbert, a longtime anti-racist and anti-imperialist, first became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1961. In 1965, he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University; in 1967 he co-authored the first Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet naming the system “imperialism”; and he was active in the Columbia strike of 1968. 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Empirically rich and theoretically nimble, this work is an outstanding contribution to Black Canadian Studies.” Barrington Walker, Queen’s University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Timely, urgent, and cogent…brilliantly elucidates the grotesque anti-Black racist practices coming from the state, and other institutions imbued with power over Black people’s lives.\" Afua Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Robyn Maynard offers powerful lessons for making anti-blackness in Canada legible to activists, scholars, policy makers, and community members committed to building a future nation—and world—free of racism, heteropatriarchy, xenophobia, and exploitation. “ Erik S. 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Here readers will find representations of the lazy, childlike Sambo, the watermelon-obsessed pickaninny, the buffoonish minstrel, the subhuman savage, the loyal and contented mammy and Tom, and the menacing, razor-toting coon and brute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMalcolm X and James Baldwin both refused to eat watermelon in front of white people. They were aware of the jokes and other stories about African Americans stealing watermelons, fighting over watermelons, even being transformed into watermelons. Did racial stories influence the actions of white fraternities and sororities who dressed in blackface and mocked black culture, or employees who hung nooses in their workplaces? What stories did the people who refer to Serena Williams and other dark-skinned athletes as apes or baboons hear? Is it possible that a white South Carolina police officer who shot a fleeing black man had never heard stories about scary black men with straight razors or other weapons? 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All of America needs to confront these injustices in order to put them where they belong, in the past, not the present.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—Philip J. Merrill, CEO and founder of Nanny Jack \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Undergirding David Pilgrim’s effort is his powerful belief that we, as a society, heal better when we stare down the evils that have walked among us, together.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In its compelling reimagination of the museum experience, the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia leverages the potential of museums to effect positive social change in a troubled world. By creating a forum for the safe exchange of ideas, Jim Crow transforms its campus and the world it inhabits, one visit at a time.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n—Bradley L. 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It lays out the philosophy behind Pilgrim’s work as a scholar and an activist: that only by acknowledging these artifacts and their persistence in American culture can we honestly confront our not-so-distant past.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—Dave Gilson, \u003cem\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This heavily illustrated book is a memoir of the author’s decades-long drive to collect racist books, illustrations, and knickknacks in order to help Americans confront, understand, and move past racism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—Jan Gardner, \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, on \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is Pilgrim’s thoughtful and passionately told story that makes the book more than just another, albeit unique, history of U.S. racism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—Bill Berkowitz, truth-out.org, on \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"An amazing, wonderful, and important book whose objects and images may offend some readers. Highly recommended for all public and academic levels\/libraries.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—F.W. Gleach, CHOICE, on \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a horrifying but important book that should be widely read to gain an accurate view of the long history of racism in the U.S.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—Barbara H. Chasin, \u003cem\u003eSocialism and Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e, on \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"To justify the exclusion of and violence toward African Americans after the Civil War, pop culture churned out objects, images, songs, and stories designed to reinforce widespread beliefs about white supremacy and black inferiority. Pilgrim has pulled together examples of such so-called black memorabilia, and he clearly explains the meaning and purpose behind them.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—Lisa Hix, \u003cem\u003eCollectors Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, on \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Pilgrim is a professor, orator, and human rights activist. He is best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum—a ten-thousand-piece collection of racist artifacts located at Ferris State University, which uses objects of intolerance to teach about race, race relations, and racism. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDebby Irving is an emerging voice in the national racial justice community. 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