The black belt thesis : a reader
In 1928, the Third International adopted a resolution on the right of self-determination for African Americans in the Black Belt, in the southeastern United States. Over the next decade, this resolution guided the Communist Party USA's regional focus in the US South, as a frontline organization in the struggle against white supremacy. This was a period of great experiments in building an independent multiracial working class movement in North America, a movement that confronted the remnants of slavery, under conditions that foreshadowed the facism that would soon develop in Europe. Across the cities and rural areas of the US South, communists engaged existing traditions of struggle, and planted seeds for the growth of the movement against racism in the following decades. This reader presents primary documents from the period to aid the study of the history, theory, and political application of the Black Belt thesis. (--back cover of book)
Print Book, English, 2023
1804 Books, New York, New York, 2023