https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/19/a-peoples-history-of-the-civil-rights-movement/
"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
Showing posts with label Black history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black history. Show all posts
Friday, March 19, 2021
Monday, June 1, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020
Friday, April 17, 2020
Friday, August 23, 2019
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Friday, June 8, 2018
Friday, February 2, 2018
A History of Resistance--A Review of An African-American and Latinx History of the United States
Monday, November 13, 2017
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Sharpening the Contradictions from the Fifty Yard Line
When I used to watch Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath throw the ball back in my earlier years, it seemed most NFL players were white. They were also assumed to be very patriotic and supportive of the US war on Vietnam and in favor of the more conservative side of US politics. Whether or not this was as universal as it seemed to be is hard to say since NFL players were not known for expressing their political views in public.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/sharpening-the-contradictions-from-the-fifty-yard-line/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/sharpening-the-contradictions-from-the-fifty-yard-line/
Friday, September 15, 2017
Friday, June 9, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Fomite Interrogations
Fomite Press, which published my novels (so far) has begun a political pamphlet series. Here is their explanation of the project:
"Given the exigencies of the time, Fomite would like to step outside its normal literary publishing practice, and add to its offerings a series of bound pamphlets on urgent political, social, cultural, and organizing issues from a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint."
The titles are interesting and provocative. My contribution to the project is titled Capitalism: Is the Problem...
Here is a link with more information and ordering details:
http://www.fomitepress.com/Tracts.html
"Given the exigencies of the time, Fomite would like to step outside its normal literary publishing practice, and add to its offerings a series of bound pamphlets on urgent political, social, cultural, and organizing issues from a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint."
The titles are interesting and provocative. My contribution to the project is titled Capitalism: Is the Problem...
Here is a link with more information and ordering details:
http://www.fomitepress.com/Tracts.html
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Friday, April 8, 2016
Friday, February 26, 2016
The Failure of a System: A Review of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Labels:
1960s,
1970s,
20th century,
austerity,
Black history,
Black Lives Matter,
Black Panthers,
book review,
capitalism,
civil rights movement,
economics,
J. Edgar Hoover,
marxism,
police murders,
political prisoners
Thursday, December 31, 2015
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