... focused, respectively, on radical politics, sexuality and gender, black internationalism, the range of genres in which Wright wrote, and on using Wright’s ideas to address contemporary black political struggles. Running through the text is an exploration of how Wright thought one could build more...

... character. The book then offers an understanding of the revolutionary character of the cinema of Robert Bresson. It argues that Bresson’s works has been engaged with questions of revolutionary practice and radical politics from the very beginning, and says that part of the radical character of Bresson’s...

...This chapter traces the continuity between the radical politics of the 1930s and that of the 1950s. Examining the roots of their affiliations with the organized US left, it details the ways black women—including Vicki Garvin, Yvonne Gregory, Maude White Katz, Thelma Dale Perkins, Marvel Cooke...

... Review Strong Augusta Third World Solidarity black women radicals radical politics political leadership leftists Communist Party political activism As I began working on this project, I called Vicki Garvin for the first of several telephone interviews. After I described my interests in writing...

..., and utopian counterculture, the radical politics of liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the transatlantic construction of “heritage Britain” in the decade that followed. American popular culture has been a transformative engine of great power. The special nature of Anglo-American cultural...

.... This chapter outlines the consequences of this shift for radical politics, positioning the study of Scottish politics within a wider British context. Edinburgh Gibbons Charles Labour Party Communist Party of Great Britain CPGB Shiels Thomas Drummond Smithies Frank franchise reform impact of Liberal...

... meaning for the rising numbers of young women and men engaging in radical politics who worked on their own material bodies to make them resilient, and thus to comply with the untiring militancy required to forge a revolution that many envisioned as imminent. Advertising agencies Body and consciousness...

... into independence in 1957. That opposition had been ruthlessly suppressed and humiliated and this Odwira proved to be a very public opportunity for both an energetic re-assertion of Asante pride and for revenge against a brand of radical politics which remains significantly less popular...

...This chapter explores utopian moments of rupture and contestation as they emerge on the terrain of radical politics today, particularly in struggles against globalised capitalism. It argues that these diverse movements of resistance – indigenous groups, anti-capitalist networks, environmental...

...What is the future for radical politics in an age that proclaims itself to be not only post-ideological but post-political as well? There are three fundamental and, in some ways, contradictory conditions that radical political theory must contend with today: the so-called ‘war on terror’, the ‘anti...

...How do we think about radical politics today, in the wake of the collapse of Marxist-Leninism and the triumph of neo-liberal capitalism? How should radical political theory respond to new challenges posed by globalisation, postmodernity, the ‘war on terror’ and the rise of religious fundamentalism...

... with him, went to his bar mitzvah, and joined him at Cornell for college. But then their paths diverged as Berkman was focused on medical school while the author saw her future in radical politics. The chapter summarizes the arguments of the book and lays out the path of Berkman’s increasingly...

... aesthetic radicalism alternative meaning austerity cultural production production social inclusion values Film Curation Radical politics Community engagement Higher education This chapter will discuss how a mode of cognitive-cultural production, a festival, was mobilised for persuasive purposes...

... them together. Their relationship was just one of many within the SWP in which couples enjoyed sharing in the common work of the party. Private relationships became intertwined with public commitments and helped build and sustain the radical politics of those involved, who otherwise faced a world...

... National Latino a Lesbian and Gay Organization Socarides Richard bisexuality radical politics intersectionality coalitions protest multiculturalism race Between 1988 and 1992, three events occurred that reveal how bisexuality developed from a social identity associated with artists and free-love...

... Randolph Asa A Philip ix– Randolph's legacy historiography Pullman Company working-class culture radical politics community politics gender racism controversial career Formed in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) emerged as the most prominent symbol of the organized black labor...

... but unable to do much about it. Like so many other humiliated and frustrated men he found his comfort in an edgy blend of conservative religion and radical politics, both of which he tempered with a sense of humor that tended toward the profane and which had, as its primary target, the very centers...

... Marxism in India, the relationship between the modernizing impulses of radical political elites and the ‘masses’, bilingual politics and radical activists, and the ‘right to exit’ within the context of radical politics. autonomy Communist Party of India Marxists CPI M conflicts equality hegemony...

... songs standard of taste popular antiquarianism Robert Riddell Francis Grose diabolism superstition radical politics national tales A chield's amang you, taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. ¹ Much of Burns's poetry written during and after...

...This chapter follows a trajectory of Kierkegaard reception that began in Austro-Hungary in the early years of the twentieth century and that led to the Dane being drawn into the radical politics of the so-called interwar years and their competing totalitarianisms, even helping some of his readers...