{"product_id":"pages-from-a-black-radicals-notebook-a-james-boggs-reader-9780814332566","title":"Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCollects nearly four decades' worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two books, co-authored two others, and penned dozens of essays, pamphlets, reviews, manifestos, and newspaper columns to become known as a pioneering revolutionary theorist and community organizer. In Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader, editor Stephen M. Ward collects a diverse sampling of pieces by Boggs, spanning the entire length of his career from the 1950s to the early 1990s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePages from a Black Radical's Notebook is arranged in four chronological parts that document Boggs's activism and writing. Part 1 presents columns from \u003ci\u003eCorrespondence\u003c\/i\u003e a newspaper written during the 1950s and early 1960s. Part 2 presents the complete text of Boggs's first book, \u003ci\u003eThe American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, his most widely known work. In Part 3, \"Black Power--Promise, Pitfalls, and Legacies,\" Ward collects essays, pamphlets, and speeches that reflect Boggs's participation in and analysis of the origins, growth, and demise of the Black Power movement. Part 4 comprises pieces written in the last decade of Boggs's life, during the 1980s through the early 1990s. An introduction by Ward provides a detailed overview of Boggs's life and career, and an afterword by Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs's wife and political partner, concludes this volume. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePages from a Black Radical's Notebook documents Boggs's personal trajectory of political engagement and offers a unique perspective on radical social movements and the African American struggle for civil rights in the post-World War II years. Readers interested in political and ideological struggles of the twentieth century will find Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook to be fascinating reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen M. Ward is assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) and the Residential College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492141207826,"sku":"9780814332566","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ff09cdd-3712-4a95-bf35-6cd6ae9c1af7.jpg?v=1730572840","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pages-from-a-black-radicals-notebook-a-james-boggs-reader-9780814332566","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}