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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
by
Amy Sonnie,
James Tracy (Goodreads Author), Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORY
The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as...more
The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
September 16th 2011
by Melville House
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This is really two books. The first 3/4 of the book os a detailed examination of attempts to organize poor white people living in the Uptown neighborhood on the north side of Chicago for a few years in the late 60's and early 70's. The last section is a much briefer, less detail rich account of similar work in New York and Philadelphia at about the same time. These latter sections lack the rich local detail of the first part of the book, and the reader gets the feeling that the authors did not h...more
I really enjoyed this book, not least because it provides a history of white working-class radical organizing across racial divides - but also because it was, by and large, situated in Chicago, although the book also discusses organizing that went on in Kensington, PA, Oregon, and to a lesser extent, New York. Uptown was the home of the Patriots and JOIN (Jobs or Income Now!), both of which formed alliances with the Young Lords and the Black Panthers, and centered around Uptown's at that time vi...more
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An important and timely history of poor white activists working to bridge racial and economic barriers in the prime of the civil rights movement.
It's hard to imagine a time where impoverished and geographically displaced Appalachian whites were able to set-aside centuries of institutionalized racism in order to work alongside groups like the Black Panthers and the Puerto Rican Young Lords.
Hillbilly Nationalists is thoroughly researched and annotated, yet still provides exactly the kind of inspir...more
It's hard to imagine a time where impoverished and geographically displaced Appalachian whites were able to set-aside centuries of institutionalized racism in order to work alongside groups like the Black Panthers and the Puerto Rican Young Lords.
Hillbilly Nationalists is thoroughly researched and annotated, yet still provides exactly the kind of inspir...more
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i really enjoyed this book a lot. i am a huge fan of movement history and this is a great companion to many other good books on the 60's. i had read books that dealt with sds's foray into poor white communities in its erap project but nothing that went into any detail about the groups and projects they were involved in. i think, as the authors state, there are real lessons to be learned by these experiences. paradoxically, when sncc moved to a black only organization and the black panthers becam...more
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Really interesting topic, organizations that came out of poor, white communities and dedicated themselves to educating whites on racism and connecting them to a larger class struggle against war and imperialism, against police brutality, hunger and in-access to medicine. The authors have them taking their cues from Stokely Carmichael who kept insisting that the best way for whites to participate in the civil rights movement was for them to take care of their own backyard, deal with their own com...more
Highly recommended! I learned a ton about 60s and 70s activism that focused on class, in addition to race and gender, issues. Chicago peeps, did you know Uptown was known as Hillbilly Harlem and considered one of the city's most dangerous post-WWII slums? If you have even the slightest interest in social justice but have never heard of Peggy Terry, Dovie Coleman, or Mike James (as I had not), you gotta read this.
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Given today's various "occupy" movements and the overwhelming amount of White privilege (and perhaps class privilege), a book on Whites organizing against both racism and classism is really sorely needed.
Cool book released at a good time
This was great, and fills a pretty critical vacuum. But it felt rushed at times, and I feel like I finished wanting a similar-length book that could be focused just on the history and internal dynamics Rising Up Angry.
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