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Want to Start a Revolution?
The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton. With few exceptions, black women have been perceived as supporting actresses; as behind-the-scenes or peripheral activists, or rank and file party members. But what about Vicki Garvin, a Brooklyn-born activist who became a leader of the National Negro Labor Council and guide to Malcolm X on his travels through Africa? What about Shirley Chisholm, the first black Congresswoman?From Rosa Parks and Esther Cooper Jackson, to Shirley Graham DuBois and Assata Shakur, a host of women demonstrated a lifelong commitment to radical change, embracing multiple roles to sustain the movement, founding numerous groups and mentoring younger activists. Helping to create the groundwork and continuity for the movement by operating as local organizers, international mobilizers, and charismatic leaders, the stories of the women profiled in Want to Start a Revolution? help shatter the pervasive and imbalanced image of women on the sidelines of the black freedom struggle.Contributors: Margo Natalie Crawford, Prudence Cumberbatch, Johanna Fernandez, Diane C. Fujino, Dayo F. Gore, Joshua Guild, Gerald Horne, Ericka Huggins, Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, Joy James, Erik McDuffie, Premilla Nadasen, Sherie M. Randolph, James Smethurst, Margaret Stevens, and Jeanne Theoharis.
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Difference, Power, and Lived Experiences
This essay is written in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham’s groundbreaking article “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race.” In it I detail some of the article’s key interventions that continue to inform my scholarship and thinking about producing histories attuned to difference and power. I also highlight the ways Higginbotham's theorizing through African American women’s history illustrates the centrality of race and of black women’s lived experiences to understanding and interpreting US history and developing more critical feminist theorizing with regard to intersectionality.
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Afterword: Centering Claudia Jones, Shifting Genealogies of Knowledge
[...]the essays in this special issue contextualize Jones's theorizing and insistence on analyzing race and gender alongside class as emerging from her immersion in communist politics, Black radical practices and the lived experiences of Black and working class people, including her own. [...]as Lindsey specifically notes, and I have argued elsewhere,2 a dynamic network of New York-based Black women radicals provided important intellectual grounding for Jones' political thought and activism, including CPUSA activists Louise Thompson Patterson, Maude White and Marvel Cooke and younger activists such as Beulah Richardson, who emerged as a key organizer in the campaign to free Rosa Lee Ingram and the Sojourners for Truth and Justice. [...]from Trinidad to Harlem and London, the essays present Claudia Jones as a singular political force, deeply informed and influenced by the experiences and insights of her communities and comrades. Whether calling for \"An End to the Neglect,\" asserting \"We Seek Full Equality,\" defending \"The Caribbean Community in Britain,\" or reporting on the \"Anti-Imperialism Keynote of the Non-Alignment Conference,\" her writings consistently presented a radical vision informed by a Black feminist analysis of intersecting oppressions and deep commitments to Black liberation and socialist revolution on a global scale.3 In providing such an expansive read of Claudia Jones, the special issue not only locates her within many of the defining intellectual traditions of the twentieth century - from Black radicalism and Marxist-Leninist thought to feminisms, anti-imperialism, and revolutionary nationalism - but also demonstrates her profound contributions and invaluable interventions in the political debates they catalyzed.
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From Communist Politics to Black Power
As recounted in this collection’s introduction, when listing the key figures in Ghana’s expatriate community during the 1960s, writer Leslie Lacy referenced Vicki Garvin, a longtime labor activist and black radical, as one of the people to see “if you want to start a revolution.”¹ While several recent studies on Black Power politics have acknowledged Vicki Garvin’s activism and transnational travels, she is often mentioned only as a representative figure, a “radical trade unionist,” or a “survivor of Mc-Carthyism,” with little attention given to the specific details of her life and political contributions.² Yet Vicki Garvin played a leading role
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