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Long Distance Runners: Black Women Radicals and the Struggle for Liberation

Long Distance Runners: Black Women Radicals and the Struggle for Liberation

Parris, Tionne Alliyah

Hardcover

Black American HistorySocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 4, 2027

ISBN13: 9798216441748
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 4 2027
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Tells the extraordinary story of a network of pioneering Black radical women - Claudia Jones, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Vicki Garvin, Louise Thompson Patterson and Eslanda Robeson - whose fearless activism reshaped the 20th-century fight for Black liberation.

This book explores their enduring influence, revealing how their transnational networks and strategies laid the groundwork for subsequent movements. They were exiled not only from the frontlines of U.S. activism but from our memory of Black radical activism. By bringing their overlooked contributions back into focus, this book redefines our understanding of the Civil Rights and Black Power eras, showcasing these women as unseen architects in the global struggle for liberation. The strategies these women developed - anti-war activism, transnational approaches, grassroots organizing, and working-class solidarity - are just as relevant today as global conflicts escalate and movements for justice face increasing repression.

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