Review: We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black radical organizations,1960—1975 By MUHAMMAD AHMAD (Chicago,Charles H. Kerr,2007),332 pp. Cloth $35.00,Paper $18.00
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Review: We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black radical organizations,1960—1975 By MUHAMMAD AHMAD (Chicago,Charles H. Kerr,2007),332 pp. Cloth $35.00,Paper $18.00
C.L.R. James, ‘Black Power , talk presented in London, 1967, < http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1967/black-power.htm> ;.
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Cedric J.Robinson, BlackMarxism: the making of the Black radical tradition (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1983).
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James, ‘Black Power , op. cit.
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A. Sivanandan, A. DifferentHunger: writings on Black resistance (London, Pluto Press, 1982), pp. 23, 34.
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See Nikhil Pal Singh, ‘The Black Panthers and the undeveloped country of the Left , in Charles Jones, ed., The Black Panther Party Reconsidered (Baltimore, Black Classic Press, 1998), pp. 84-7; Peniel E. Joseph, Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: a narrative history of Black Power in America (New York, Holt Paperbacks, 2006).
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See Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: a people’s history of the Third World (New York, The New Press, 2007).
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The late editor, poet, author and surrealist activist Franklin Rosemont - who had long printed radical social thought for the freedom struggles of the working class and people of colour - was involved as a publisher at Kerr during the publication of this text, before his death in April 2009.
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W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America: an essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 (New York, Atheneum, 1962 [1935]); C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (London, Secker and Warburg/ New York, Vintage, 1963[1938]); Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1944); Rod Bush, We Are Not What We Seem: Black nationalism and class struggle in the American century (New York, NYU Press, 2000).
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizingCalifornia (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007), p. 25.
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Jordan T. Camp, "We know this place": neoliberal racial regimes and the Katrina circumstance , American Quarterly (Vol. 61, no. 3, September 2009).
