![]() ![]() ClichÇs like ``empowerment,'' ``refusing to privilege race, class, or gender,'' and ``discursive strategies'' drift like academic deadwood through these pages. The problem is that Kelley's leftist orthodoxy clutters his prose and numbs his perspective. ![]() His narrative of black volunteers in the Spanish Civil War adds a small but moving chapter to that conflict. For instance, his discussions of blacks' early unorganized, unsuccessful fight for space on buses, of Birmingham's displaced industrial poor, and of tensions between working-poor and middle-class blacks add much to our understanding of the civil rights movement. To his vast credit, in seeking to memorialize history's marginalized, Kelley has brought to the surface events and issues that need to be addressed. ![]() James: the so-called ``history from below'' that interprets events in the prism of class struggle. The perspective here is that of radical historians such as W.E.B. of Michigan Hammer and Hoe, not reviewed) is a historian with an ax to grind, and he wields it with a will. Kelley (History, Afro-American, and African Studies/Univ. ![]() A leftist history of unconventional resistance by 20th-century African-Americans to racial, class, and sexual oppression. ![]()
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