Moving Against the System
eBook - ePub

Moving Against the System

The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Moving Against the System

The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness

About this book

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.

Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the "Third World," this group of activists, writers, and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of Black Power.

With never-before-seen texts from Stokely Carmichael, Walter Rodney, and C.L.R. James, Moving Against the System will prove invaluable to anyone interested in Black radical thought, as well as capturing a crucial moment of the political activity around 1968.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: The Dialect of Liberation - The Congress of Black Writers at 50—and Beyond
  8. 1. The Psychology of Subjection - Race Relations in the United States of America
  9. 2. The Haitian Revolution and the History of Slave Revolt
  10. 3. The Fathers of the Modern Revolt - Marcus Garvey and the Origins of Black Power
  11. 4. African History in the Service of the Black Liberation
  12. 5. The Civilizations of Ancient Africa
  13. 6. Black History in the Americas
  14. 7. Race in Britain and the Way Out
  15. 8. Moving Against the System - New Directions for the Black Struggle
  16. 9. Frantz Fanon and the Third World
  17. 10. Black Power in the USA
  18. 11. “A Black Woman Speaks Out”
  19. 12. “You Don’t Play with Revolution”
  20. 13. On the Banning of Walter Rodney from Jamaica
  21. 14. Letter to C. L. R. James from Rosie Douglas, June 9, 1968
  22. 15. Letter to Rosie Douglas from C. L. R. James, June 27, 1968
  23. Notes
  24. Index