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Autore: | Boyce Davies Carole |
Titolo: | Left of Karl Marx [[electronic resource] ] : the political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones / / Carole Boyce Davies |
Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (341 pages) |
Disciplina: | 941.085/092 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Left of Karl Marx |
ISBN: | 1-283-03552-9 |
9786613035523 | |
0-8223-9032-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777987103321 |
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