Race rebels: culture, politics, and the black working class

Contents Foreword by George Lipsitz Introduction: Writing Black Working-Class History from Way, Way Below PART I. WE WEAR THE MASK: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE 1. Shiftless of the World Unite! 2. Are Not What We Seem: The Politics and Pleasures of Community 3. Congested Terrain: Resistance on Public Transportation 4. Birmingham's Untouchables: The Black Poor in the Age of Civil Rights PART II. TO BE RED AND BLACK 5. Afric's Sons With Banner Red: African American Communists and the Politics of Culture, 1919-1934 6. This Ain't Ethiopia, But It'll Do: African Americans and the Spanish Civil War PART III. REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE? 7. The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics During World War II 8. Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: Gangsta Rap and Postindustrial Los Angeles Afterword Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index