LEADER 04337nam 2200601 450 001 9910821489903321 005 20230126215221.0 024 7 $a10.7312/zama18110 035 $a(CKB)3710000001386341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5275990 035 $a(DE-B1597)480245 035 $a(OCoLC)1004882305 035 $a(OCoLC)1011452949 035 $a(OCoLC)983786562 035 $a(OCoLC)984688398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231543477 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5275990 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11529483 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001386341 100 $a20180404h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aStruggle on their minds $ethe political thought of African American resistance /$fAlex Zamalin 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (237 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-231-18110-8 311 $a0-231-54347-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance -- $t1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision -- $t2. Ida B. Wells, The Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing -- $t3. Huey Newton, The Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America -- $t4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral State -- $tConclusion: The Future of Resistance -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAmerican political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In this timely book, Alex Zamalin considers key moments of resistance to demonstrate its current and future necessity, focusing on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse. Struggle on Their Minds shows how the core values of the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American political thought that is an invaluable component of contemporary struggles for racial justice.Zamalin looks at the language and concepts put forward by the abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party organizer Huey Newton, and the prison abolitionist Angela Davis. Each helped revise and transform ideas about power, justice, community, action, and the role of emotion in political action. Their thought encouraged abolitionists to call for the eradication of slavery, black journalists to chastise American institutions for their indifference to lynching, and black radicals to police the police and to condemn racial injustice in the American prison system. Taken together, these movements pushed political theory forward, offering new language and concepts to sustain democracy in tense times. Struggle on Their Minds is a critical text for our contemporary moment, showing how the political thought that comes out of resistance can energize the practice of democratic citizenship and ultimately help address the prevailing problem of racial injustice. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitical activity$xHistory 606 $aAfrican American intellectuals 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $alavery$zUnited States$xInfluence 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitical activity$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican American intellectuals. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$alavery$xInfluence. 676 $a323.1196073 700 $aZamalin$b Alex$f1986-$01705966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821489903321 996 $aStruggle on their minds$94093079 997 $aUNINA