Race rebels : culture, politics, and the Black working class /
Robin D.G. Kelley.
- 1st Free Press paperback ed.
- New York : Free Press : Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 1996.
- xii, 357 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-338) and index.
Introduction: Writing black working-class history from way, way below -- PART I: "WE WEAR THE MASK": HIDDEN HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE: Shiftless of the world unite! -- "We are not what we seem": the politics and pleasures of community -- Congested terrain: resistance of public transportation -- Birmingham's untouchables: the black poor in the age of civil rights -- PART II: TO BE RED AND BLACK: "Afric's sons with banner red": African American Communists and the politics of culture, 1919-1934 -- "This ain't Ethiopia, but it'll do": African Americans and the Spanish Civil War -- PART III: REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE?: The riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black cultural politics during World War II -- Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: "Gangsta Rap" and postindustrial Los Angeles -- Afterword -- Notes.
"Race Rebels is African American history at its challenging and transformative best."
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African Americans--History--1877-1964. African Americans--History--1964- Radicalism--History--United States--20th century. Working class African Americans--History--20th century. Working class--History--United States--20th century.