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In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
- Title
- In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs / Stephen M. Ward.
- Author
- Ward, Stephen M., 1970-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xix, 433 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "James and Grace Lee Boggs were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. James Boggs was the son of an Alabama sharecropper who came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union leader. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied Hegel, worked with Caribbean political theorist C. L. R. James, and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was influential in the early stages of what would become the Black Power movement, laying the intellectual foundation for labor and urban struggles during one of the most active social movement periods in modern U.S. history. Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses' lives, highlighting the vital contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking"--
- Series Statement
- Justice, power, and politics
- Uniform Title
- Justice, power, and politics.
- Subjects
- Political activists
- African American political activists
- Black power
- Civil rights workers
- African American radicals
- Socialism
- Chinese American women
- Political activists > Michigan > Detroit > Biography
- African American political activists > Michigan > Detroit > Biography
- Black power > United States > History > 20th century
- United States
- Boggs, James
- Boggs, Grace Lee
- Civil rights workers > Michigan > Detroit > Biography
- African American radicals > Michigan > Detroit > Biography
- 1900-1999
- Socialism > United States > History > 20th century
- History
- Black author
- Michigan > Detroit
- Biography
- Chinese American women > Michigan > Detroit > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Making a way out of no way: Jimmy's Southern roots and urban groundings -- Black radical Detroit: Jimmy, the Labor Movement, and the Left -- Embracing contradictions: Grace's philosophic journey and political emergence -- Revolutionary Marxism: Grace, black protest, and the Johnson-Forest tendency -- Marxism and marriage in Detroit -- Building correspondence -- Facing multiple realities -- Only one side is right -- An ending and a beginning -- The American revolution.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1877
- ISBN
- 9780807835203
- 080783520X
- LCCN
- 2015041272
- OCLC
- 922912829
- Author
- Ward, Stephen M., 1970- author.
- Title
- In love and struggle : the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs / Stephen M. Ward.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Justice, power, and politicsJustice, power, and politics.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1877