The polemics of C.L.R. James and contemporary Black activism. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Polemics of Cyril Lionel Robert James and contemporary Black activism
• Further Information: Note: Ornette D. Clennon.
• Authors: Clennon, Ornette D, 1969-
• Contents: The Polemics of C.L.R. James and Contemporary Black Activism; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction -- Finding C.L.R. James; Works Cited; 2 A New Dawn. A New Day: Dialectical Materialism; Introduction; A New Democratic Thinking?; James' Dialectical Materialism; Hegelian Dialecticism a Form of Neoliberalism. Really?; Bureaucratic Democracy Creating the Deception of Social Unity; Transposing the Deception of 'Social Unity' to the Market; Dialectism in Community Action?; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 3 All Together Now! The Rise of British Nationalism; The Decline of Empire. We're All in This Together. Sound Familiar?War, Metaphor and Social Unity; Domestic Colonialism; What's Empire Got to Do with Brexit?; Brexit and Dialectical Materialism; Multiculturalism and Pan Africanism, to be continued. & Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 4 When Will The Revolution Be Televised? The Decline of the Trades Unions and the Rise of the Consumer; Introduction; A 'Social Unity' Amongst Workers?; So Why Do Trades Unions Seem to Be 'Inherently' Resistant to Racial Equality?; Tripartism, Privatised Keynesianism and Democracy; A Grass-roots Revolution in the UK?; Conclusion; Notes. Works Cited5 We Don't Need No Education. (Unless You're Black). De-Colonised Education as a Tool for Political Activism; Introduction; Race and Class; The Relevance of Theory for Grass-roots Activism; Education as "A Battlefield, a Theater of Conflict"; Citizenship and Enterprise Education; A Jamesian Dialectical Cooperation?; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 6 We Are The World. Racial Capitalism and Its Links with Pan Africanism; Introduction; Bureaucratic Deceptive 'Social Unity'?; Race as Class; James' Dialectical Materialism; Dialectical Materialism and Pan Africanism. Contemporary Pan Africanism -- A Collection of Social Movements?Pan Africanism -- Sociogeny for the Twenty-First Century; Pan Africanism -- Fundamental Garveyism; Pan Africanism -- International Consensus and Cooperation; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.896/042; Blacks -- Political activity -- Great Britain; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Blacks -- Political activity; Social Sciences; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Social Theory; Ethnicity Studies; Urban Studies/Sociology; Social Work and Community Development; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319475487; 9783319475486
• Related ISBNs: 3319475479; 9783319475479
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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