Pages from a black radical's notebook: A James Boggs Reader

Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-401

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28. James Boggs, Racism and the Class Struggle: Further Pages from a Black Worker's Notebook (New York: Monthly review press, 1970), 7.
29. The Detroit Committee for the Liberation of Africa Newsletter 1, no. 4 (1975): 1-3.
30. James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (1974; New York: Monthly review press, 2008), 19.
31. Nkenge Zola, John S. Gruchala, and Grace Lee Boggs, eds., James Boggs: An American Revolutionary (Detroit: New Life Publishers, 1993).
32. Kenneth Snodgrass, "James Boggs Lives", Michigan Chronicle, August 4-10, 1993, 1-A.
33. Grace Lee Boggs, Living for Change: An Autobiography (Minneapolis: university of Minnesota press, 1998), 146.
34. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 91.
35. Rod Podell, "Longtime Social Activist Boggs Finds MLK's words Still relevant today", Focus EMU Online, January 17, 2007, www.emich.edu/focus- emu/011607/mlkwrap.html (accessed April 20, 2007).
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39. pendle Hill Seminar/Search: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Modern Freedom Movement", Led by vincent Harding and rosemarie Freeney Harding, Dated July 18, 1979, 1
40. Xavier Nicholas, Questions of the American Revolution: Conversations with James Boggs (Atlanta: institute of the Black world, 1976)
41. James Boggs interview in Detroit Committee for the Liberation of Africa Newsletter
42. G. Boggs, Living for Change, chapter 4;.
43. Detroit Committee for the Liberation of Africa Newsletter, 3
44. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 84, 92.
45. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 227-28.
46. Joyce A. Ladner, The Ties That Bind: Timeless Values for African American Families (New York: wiley, 1998), chapter 11.
47. Marian Wright Edelman, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours (New York: Harper perennial, 1992), 11.
48. J. Boggs, "Pendle Hill Seminar/Search", 1
49. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 93.
50. J. Boggs, "Pendle Hill Seminar/Search", 1.
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54. Steve Babson, Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986), 18
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58. Roger Keeran, The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions (Bloomington: indiana university press, 1980), chapter 3.
59. Sidney Fine, Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 (Ann Arbor: university of Michigan press, 1970)
60. Widick, Detroit, 67-78.
61. Babson, Working Detroit, 103-10.
62. August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW (oxford: oxford university press, 1979)
63. Melba Joyce Boyd, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (New York: Columbia university press, 2003).
64. Sunnie Wilson with John Cohassey, Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (detroit: wayne State university press, 1998), 104-5
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66. Detroit Count, "Hastings Street opera"
67. John Lee Hooker, "Boogie Chillen"
68. Dudley Randall, "Hastings Street Girls".
69. Moon, Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes, 150-51.
70. Boggs, "Pendle Hill Seminar/Search", 2.
71. J. Boggs, The American Revolution, 133 (in this book).
72. Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis, 26.
73. Beth T. Bates, "'double v for victory' Mobilizes Black detroit, 1941-1946", in Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, ed. Jeanne F. theo-haris and Komozi woodard (New York: palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 17-39.
74. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (Chapel Hill: university of north Carolina press, 2001).
75. August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979)
76. Richard W. Thomas, Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945 (Bloomington: indiana university press, 1992), chapter 8
77. Widick, Detroit.
78. Widick, Detroit, 72.
79. Moon, Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes, 152.
80. Moon, Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes, 153.
81. nicholas, Questions of the American Revolution, 4.
82. Boyd, Wrestling with the Muse
83. Angela D. Dillard, Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (Ann Arbor: university of Michigan press, 2007).
84. His Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights: Michigan, 1948-1968 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000), 105.
85. Dillard, Faith in the City, 213-15.
86. His Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (New York: random House, 2008), 148-54.
87. Moon, Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes.
88. Charles Denby, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989).
89. Nicholas, Questions of the American Revolution, 9.
90. Anna Grimshaw, ed., The C. L. R. James Reader (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992)
91. Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart, eds., American Civilization (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993)
92. Martin Glaberman, ed., Marxism for Our Times: C. L. R. James on Revolutionary Organization (Jackson: university press of Mississippi, 1999)
93. Paul Buhle, ed., C. L. R. James: His Life and His Work (New York: Allison Busby, 1986)
94. Paul Buhle, C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary (New York: verso, 1988)
95. Kent Worcester, C. L. R. James: A Political Biography (Albany: State university of New York, 1996)
96. Selwyn R. Cudjoe and William E. Cain, eds., C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies (Amherst: university of Massachusetts press, 1995)
97. Scott McLemee, ed., C. L. R. James on the "Negro Question" (Jackson: university press of Mississippi, 1996).
98. "Statement of the editor", Correspondence, october 3, 1953, 1.
99. Kevin Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (ithaca: Cornell university press, 1995)
100. Keeran, The Communist Party, 250-91.
101. Boggs, Living for Change, 99-103.
102. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 99.
103. Al Whitney, "negro Challenge", Correspondence, August 7, 1954, 8.
104. James Boggs, "the First Giant Step", Correspondence, June 3, 1961, 1
105. James Boggs to the members of the executive Board of Local 7, January 25, 1961, in author's possession.
106. "End of an era: State of the union", Correspondence, April 22, 1961, 1.
107. Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the PostMarket Era (New York: G. P. putnam's Sons, 1995), 81
108. Amy Sue Bix, Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins university press, 2000), 254-74.
109. J. Boggs, The American Revolution, 109 (in this book).
110. James Boggs, "A workless Society in a world of want", Correspondence, February 1963, 3.
111. nicholas, Questions of the American Revolution, 34.
112. James Boggs, "'Full employment is as reactionary today as 'rugged individualism' was in the 1930s", Correspondence, March 1963, 3.
113. Boggs, The American Revolution, 106 (in this book).
114. Grace Lee Boggs: Boggs and Boggs, Revolution and Evolution.
115. Dillard, Faith in the City, chapter 6
116. Angela D. Dillard, "Religion and radicalism: the reverend Albert B. Cleage Jr., and the rise of Black Christian nationalism in detroit", in Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, ed. Jeanne theoharis and Komozi woodard (New York: palgrave, 2003).
117. Timothy B. Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (Chapel Hill: university of north Carolina press, 1999)
118. Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns (1962; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988).
119. Mullen, Afro-Orientalism, chapter 3.
120. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 125, 134
121. Muhammad Ahmad, We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations, 1960-1975 (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr publishing Company, 2007), chapter 3
122. Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Boston: Beacon press, 2002), chapter 3.
123. Racism and the Class Struggle: Further Pages from a Black Worker's Notebook (New York: Monthly review press, 1970).
124. J. Boggs, Racism and the Class Struggle, 163 (in this book).
125. Jennifer Jung Hee Choi, "At the Margins of the Asian American political experience: the Life of Grace Lee Boggs", Amerasia Journal, uCLA Asian American Studies Center, 25, no. 2 (1999): 39n25.
126. J. Boggs, Racism and the Class Struggle, 116.
127. Dillard, Faith in the City, 220-92
128. Joseph, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour, 53-63, 73-76, 81-84, 87-92
129. Smethurst, The Black Arts Movement, 224-26
130. Mullen, Afro-Orientalism, 73-111.
131. Larry Neal, Visions of a Liberated Future: Black Arts Movement Writings (New York: thunder's Mouth press, 1989).
132. Sidney Fine, Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967 (1989; east Lansing: Michigan State university press, 2007).
133. Louis Lomax, "Anatomy of a riot", Detroit News, July 30, 1967, 1.
134. Grace Lee Boggs, "My philosophical Journey" (unpublished paper, 1998, in author's possession), 7.
135. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 141.
136. Grace Lee Boggs, "Coming Full Circle", 4 (paper presented to the north American Labor History Conference, wayne State university, october 19, 2001, in author's possession).
137. James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs, Freddy Paine, and Lyman Paine, Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nation's Future (Boston: South end Press, 1978)
138. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 143-50.
139. James Boggs, Manifesto for a Black Revolutionary Party (Detroit: Advocators, 1969).
140. Patricia Wendolyn Coleman-Burns, "A rhetorical Analysis of the national organization for an American revolution" (Ph.D. Diss., Wayne State University, 1987), 32, 35-36, 48-61
141. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 160-67
142. Grace Lee Boggs, introduction to Boggs and Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, vii-x.
143. Boggs and Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, 140.
144. Coleman-Burns, "A rhetorical Analysis"
145. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 171-84.
146. Coleman-Burns, "A rhetorical Analysis", Contains a bibliography of noAr literature on 203-9.
147. Grace Lee Boggs Discusses the collapse of noAr, including a critical assessment of its structure and practices, in Living for Change, 184-89.
148. G. Boggs, Living for Change, chapter 8, discusses the organizations listed in this paragraph.
149. Richard Thomas, "the Black Community Building process in post-urban disorder detroit, 1967-1997", in The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to Present, ed. Joe W. Trotter, Earl Lewis, and Tera W. Hunter (New York: palgrave MacMillan, 2004).
150. Bernard L. Brock and Sharon Howell, "Leadership in the evolution of a Community-Based political Action Group", in Group Communication in Context: Studies of Natural Groups, ed. Lawrence R. Frey (Hillsdale, nJ: Lawrence erlbaum Associates, 1994), 151.
151. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 232
152. James Boggs, "why detroit Summer?" (in author's possession).
153. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 232.
154. SOSAD Movement Building workshop, "Think Dialectically, Not Biologically", Detroit, Michigan, March 19, 1993 (videotape in author's possession).
155. Grace Lee Boggs, "remembering James Boggs (1919-1993)", Third World Viewpoint (Fall 1993): 12
156. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 235-38.
157. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 237-38.
158. Rachel Peterson, "Correspondence: Journalism, Anticommunism, and Marxism in 1950s detroit", in Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: Another Side of the Story, ed. robbie Lieberman and Clarence Lang (New York: palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
159. Worcester, C. L. R. James: A Political Biography, 124-29, 139-40
160. Smethurst, The Black Arts Movement, 187-92
161. Buhle, C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary, 119-22.
162. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 67-68, 99-100, 103.
163. Peterson, "Correspondence", 130.
164. Sameness in the paper", Correspondence, August 7, 1954, 6).
165. Dan Georgakas, "Young Detroit Radicals, 1955-1965", in Buhle, C. L. R. James: His Life and Work, 193.
166. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 109.
167. Monthly Review 15, no. 5 (September 1963).
168. Barry Feinberg and Ronald Kasrils, eds., Bertrand Russell's America, Vol. 2, 1945-1970 (Boston: South end press, 1983), chapter 17
169. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 115.
170. Ossie Davis, Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings (New York: Atria Books, 2006), 196.
171. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 114.
172. Life Lit by Some Large Vision, 195.
173. Williams, Negroes with Guns.
174. A. B. Spellman, "the view from Harlem", The Nation, June 29, 1964.
175. L. M. Meriwether, "From Cover to Cover", Los Angeles Sentinel, September 5, 1963.
176. Ernie Allen and Kenn M. Freeman, "Notes on James Boggs' American Revolution", Soulbook 1, no. 3 (1965): 221, 224.
177. James Boggs, "Black power: A Scientific Concept whose time Has Come", in Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing, ed. Leroi Jones and Larry neal (New York: William Morrow, 1968)
178. James Boggs, "the revolutionary Struggle for Black power", in The Black Seventies, ed. Floyd B. Barbour (Boston: porter Sargent, 1970)
179. James Boggs, "the Myth and irrationality of Black Capitalism", Review of Black Political Economy 1, no. 1 (1970): 27-35.
180. Dillard, Faith in the City, chapters 5-6, and especially 251-85.
181. Boyd, Wrestling with the Muse.
182. Smethurst, The Black Arts Movement, chapter 4.
183. J. Boggs, "the American revolution: putting politics in Command", 238
184. J. Boggs, "Liberalism, Marxism, and Black political power", 160-61.
185. J. Boggs, "Culture and Black power", 184.
186. J. Boggs, "Beyond rebellion", 251.
187. J. Boggs, "the Myth and irrationality of Black Capitalism", 189.
188. J. Boggs, "the American revolution: putting politics in Command", 243.
189. J. Boggs, Manifesto, 212.
190. James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs, "the role of the vanguard party", Monthly Review 21, no. 11 (1970): 22.
191. J. Boggs, "Beyond nationalism", 258.
192. J. Boggs, "Liberation or revolution?" 296.
193. J. Boggs, "Liberation or revolution?" 296.
194. J. Boggs, "The Challenge Facing Afro-Americans in the 1980s", 309.
195. J. Boggs, "Toward a new Concept of Citizenship", 278-79.
196. J. Boggs, "the next development in education", 289-90.
197. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 241.
198. G. Boggs, "remembering James Boggs", 12.
199. Joe T. Darden, Richard Child Hill, June Thomas, and Richard Thomas, Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (philadelphia: temple university press, 1987), 202-20.
200. Wilbur C. Rich, Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989)
201. Heather Thompson, "Rethinking the Collapse of postwar Liberalism: the rise of Mayor Coleman young and the politics of race in detroit", in African American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City, ed. David R. Colburn and Jeffrey S. Adler (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001)
202. Coleman Young and Lonnie Wheeler, Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young (New York: viking, 1994).
203. Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis.
204. Reynolds Farley, Sheldon Danziger, and Harry J. Holzer, Detroit Divided (New York: russell Sage Foundation, 2000), 1.
205. Widick, Detroit, 236.
206. J. Boggs, "Going where we Have never Been: Creating Communities for our Future", 328.
207. www.thehubofdetroit.org
208. Nicole Ray, "Avalon rising: eating well and doing Good in detroit", Edible Wow [Winter 2010], http://www.ediblecommunities.com/wow/ winter-2010/feeding-the-community.htm
209. Lisa M. Collins, "on a roll: Avalon international Breads isn't Just about Making dough", Metro Times, September 4, 2002
210. Patricia B. Gray, "A Bakery on the rise: two partners try to expand their Food Business without Losing Momentum", Fortune, March 24, 2008).
211. www.boggseducationalcenter.org
212. www.boggscenter.org
213. www.boggsblog.org
214. www.dcoh.org
215. www.flypmedia.com
216. J. Boggs, "Going where we Have never Been", 328.
217. J. Boggs, "Community Building: An idea whose time Has Come", 332.
218. widick, Detroit, 236.
219. J. Boggs, "Rebuilding Detroit: An Alternative to Casino Gambling", 341.
220. June Manning Thomas, Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins university press, 1997), chapter 7.
221. Rich, Coleman Young, chapter 6.
222. Darden et al., Detroit
223. Jon C. Teaford, The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins university press, 1990).
224. Grace Lee Boggs Describes their organizing efforts that defeated the proposal in G. Boggs, Living for Change, 231.
225. J. Boggs, "A 'no' vote will Say detroiters want to Save what's Left", 353.
226. Richard Thomas, "the Black Community Building process in post-urban disorder detroit, 1967-1997", in The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, ed. Joe W. Trotter, Earl Lewis, and Tera W. Hunter (New York: palgrave MacMillan, 2004), 231.
227. J. Boggs, "We Can run But we Can't Hide", 366.
228. J. Boggs, "Time to Act Like Citizens, Not Subjects", 361.
229. J. Boggs, "Why Detroit Summer?" 369.
230. G. Boggs, Living for Change, 232.
231. Julia Pointer-Putnam, "the Call to detroit Summer", in the new edition of James Boggs, The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook (New York: Monthly review press, 2009).
232. www.detroitsummer.org
233. Jeanette Lee, "the outsiders practicing transformation", in The new edition of The American Revolution.