Race rebels: culture, politics, and the Black working class

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Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.;Introduction: Writing black working-class history from way, way below -- PART I: "WE WEAR THE MASK": HIDDEN HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE: Shiftless of the world unite! -- "We are not what we seem": the politics and pleasures of community -- Congested terrain: resistance of public transportation -- Birmingham's untouchables: the black poor in the age of civil rights -- PART II: TO BE RED AND BLACK: "Afric's sons with banner red": African American Communists and the politics of culture, 1919-1934 -- "This ain't Ethiopia, but it'll do": African Americans and the Spanish Civil War -- PART III: REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE?: The riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black cultural politics during World War II -- Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: "Gangsta Rap" and postindustrial Los Angeles -- Afterword -- Notes. Introduction: Writing black working-class history from way, way below -- PART I: "WE WEAR THE MASK": HIDDEN HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE: Shiftless of the world unite! -- "We are not what we seem": the politics and pleasures of community -- Congested terrain: resistance of public transportation -- Birmingham's untouchables: the black poor in the age of civil rights -- PART II: TO BE RED AND BLACK: "Afric's sons with banner red": African American Communists and the politics of culture, 1919-1934 -- "This ain't Ethiopia, but it'll do": African Americans and the Spanish Civil War -- PART III: REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE?: The riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black cultural politics during World War II -- Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: "Gangsta Rap" and postindustrial Los Angeles -- Afterword -- Notes.