Black Radical Tradition: A Reader

With activists taking to the streets with renewed vigor to fight racism, inequality, and capitalism, this collection of classic writing and primary documents restores the historical grounding and revolutionary genealogy of today's protest movements. James, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, and the Combahee River Collective, this is the most comprehensive gathering of revolutionary black voices ever assembled.Leading contemporary scholars including Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, Bill Fletcher, Donna Murch, and Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor contextualize the selections with introductions and explanatory material.. DuBois to Black Lives Matter, the writers, thinkers, revolutionaries, and movements represented in this book shaped a global liberation struggle that put race at the center of the story, while outlining a vision of freedom for all people. From W.E.B. Including key writings of thinkers and figures like Hubert Harrison, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. The key writings from the radical Black Freedom Struggle, put into contemporary context by acclaimed thinkers and journalistsThis book traces over the course of a century the making of a radica

. Andrew Hsiao is an editor with Verso Books

About the AuthorAndrew Hsiao is an editor with Verso Books.