Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic Since 1917 - Racism, Resistance and Social Change (Hardback)

'This luminous collection brings several revolutionary lives to its pages to show us how these figures both experienced and shaped the world around them. The legendary figures whose stories are told here, many of them central to the black radical tradition, emerged at the intersection of the "Red" and "Black" Atlantics. Their lives and struggles offer us rich visions of possibilities and solidarities beyond the confines of the nation-state which are needed now more than ever. This book is an invaluable resource for such hopes and dreams.'Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge'A valuable addition to the rich history of African-Atlantic Marxism.'Steve Cushion, Chartist (No. 320)'Pathbreaking [...] essential reading not only for labour historians, but also for all those within academia and the public sphere interested in the important, but far too often neglected, linked subject areas of the influences of revolutionary Marxism, in the form of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, upon black revolutionaries, their social movements, their political and personal biographies, and their relations with predominantly non-black activists and movements in the Atlantic world.' Neville Kirk, Labour History Review (88.3)'The essays in this study make a new and original contribution to questions of race, class and gender, Marxism, black nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism. They should inspire more historians and other scholars to work across disciplines and to transcend the dominant whiteness of labour studies. This will enable us more fully to explore and understand the rich ways in which white and black activists and their movements operated and related in a variety of global spaces and places over time.'Neville Kirk, Labour History Review (88.3) - .