Louise Thompson Patterson
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6985-1 (ISBN)
Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the first biography of Patterson, Keith Gilyard tells her compelling story, from her childhood on the West Coast, where she suffered isolation and persecution, to her participation in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. In the 1930s and 1940s she became central, along with Paul Robeson, to the labor movement, and later, in the 1950s, she steered proto-black-feminist activities. Patterson was also crucial to the efforts in the 1970s to free political prisoners, most notably Angela Davis. In the 1980s and 1990s she continued to work as a progressive activist and public intellectual. To read her story is to witness the courage, sacrifice, vision, and discipline of someone who spent decades working to achieve justice and liberation for all.
Keith Gilyard is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University and the author and editor of numerous books, including True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy and John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism.
List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Louise Alone, 1901–1916 7
2. California Community, 1917–1925 26
3. Shades of Control, 1925–1928 42
4. Harlem Kaleidoscope, 1928–1932 61
5. Madam Moscow, 1932 81
6. The Struggle Has Nine Lives, 1932–1934 97
7. Popular Fronts, 1935–1937 113
8. Ba Ba Ba Bop, 1937–1940 129
9. Bronzeville Brigades, 1941–1949 145
10. Sojourns and Sojourners, 1949–1959 162
11. A Fairer Public Hearing, 1960–1969 182
12. Confirming Commitments, 1970–1984 195
13. Still Reaching, 1984–1999 212
Notes 231
Bibliography 271
Index 283
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 24 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-6985-0 / 0822369850 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-6985-1 / 9780822369851 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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