Race rebels: culture, politics, and the Black working class [First Free Press paperback edition] 9781439105047, 9780684826394, 1439105049

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strate

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Table of contents :
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.

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