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Left of Karl Marx : the political life of black Communist Claudia Jones / Carole Boyce Davies.

By: Boyce Davies, CaroleMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008Description: xxvii, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780822341161 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780822340966 (cloth : alk. paper); 0822340968 (cloth : alk. paper); 0822341166 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Jones, Claudia, 1915-1964 | Women communists -- United States -- Biography | Women communists -- Great Britain -- Biography | West Indians -- United States -- Biography | West Indians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Women journalists -- United States -- Biography | Women journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography | Feminists -- United States -- Biography | Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography | 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 centuryDDC classification: 941.085/092 | B LOC classification: HX84.J66 | B69 2007
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.

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.

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