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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777987103321

Autore

Boyce Davies Carole

Titolo

Left of Karl Marx [[electronic resource] ] : the political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones / / Carole Boyce Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-283-03552-9

9786613035523

0-8223-9032-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 pages)

Disciplina

941.085/092

Soggetti

Women communists - United States

Women communists - Great Britain

West Indians - United States

West Indians - Great Britain

Women journalists - United States

Women journalists - Great Britain

Feminists - United States

Feminists - Great Britain

Women and communism - United States - History - 20th century

Women and communism - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Women's rights - United States - History - 20th century

Women's rights - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Chronology -- Introduction. Recovering the radical Black female subject: anti-imperialism, feminism, and activism -- Women's rights/workers' rights/anti-imperialism: challenging the superexploitation of Black working-class women -- From "half the world" to the whole world: journalism as Black transnational political practice -- Prison blues: literary activism and a poetry of resistance -- Deportation: the other politics of diaspora, or "what is an ocean between us? We know how to build bridges." -- Carnival and diaspora: Caribbean community, happiness, and activism -- Piece work/peace



work: self-construction versus state repression -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual active in the U.S. and U.K.