Bibliograph

In love and struggle, the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs, Stephen M. Ward

Type

Label

In love and struggle, the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs, Stephen M. Ward

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In love and struggle

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Stephen M. Ward

Series statement

Justice, power, and politics

Sub title

the revolutionary lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs

Summary

James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied Hegel, worked with Caribbean political theorist C. L. R. James, and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was influential in the early stages of what would become the Black Power movement, laying the intellectual foundation for racial and urban struggles during one of the most active social movement periods in recent U.S. history. Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses' lives, highlighting the vital contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking. At once a dual biography of two crucial figures and a vivid portrait of Detroit as a center of activism, Ward's book restores the Boggses, and the intellectual strain of black radicalism they shaped, to their rightful place in postwar American history

Target audience

adult

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