A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly Cited by: · Between and , the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movement in Alabama -- the center of Party activity in the Depression South. Hammer and Hoe documents the efforts of the Alabama Communist Party and its allies to secure racial, economic, and political reforms. Sensitive to the complexities of gender, race, culture and class without . A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly Cited by: 8.
Unsurprisingly, much of this history is largely unknown or distorted in the U.S. Robin D.G. Kelley's Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, first published in , offers an invaluable piece of this history [1]. Where Communism Was Black DAVID ROEDIGER University of Missouri Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. By Robin D. G. Kelley. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, pages. $ (cloth); $ (paper). LIBERAL COLUMNISTS AT THE JOHANNESBURG WEEKLY MAIL GENTLY. In his classic Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression, historian Robin D.G. Kelley casts a new light on anti-racist and pro-worker organizing and activism in the Jim Crow south, placing the focus on a diverse array of working-class Communist Party members: Black sharecroppers, white unionists, women, the unemployed, and.
But with the aid of the Communist Party, a militant movement of sharecroppers emerged to challenge this system. Robin D. G. Kelley tells the story in his classic book Hammer and Hoe: Communists in Alabama During the Great Depression, now out in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition and excerpted below. A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites. Robin D.G. Kelley first published Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression in , although he began working on it as a doctoral student in the s. In the book, Kelley narrates the emergence of the communist movement in Alabama during the s, focusing on the struggles communists faced in organizing unions and anti-racist campaigns and, just as importantly, how they were able to synthesize Marxist ideology with southern Black culture.
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