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Tables of Contents for Black Liberation and the American Dream
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE
11
2
1. REACHING FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM
13
2. CONFRONTING RACISM IN SOCIETY ... AND IN OURSELVES
11
20
Mental Tricks and Quirks
17
2
"I Know Everything"
17
1
Connecting the Dots-Even without the Dots
18
1
We Don't Always Know What's in Our Minds
18
1
"I'm Better Than That Other Person"
18
1
Racial Prejudice
19
4
An Example of Racism
23
4
Implications of Racism and Antiracism
27
4
3. UNDERSTANDING RACISM
31
14
What Is Race
31
2
Racism ... and What It Does to Many of Its Victims
33
5
Income, Wealth, Poverty
34
1
Employment
35
1
Education
35
1
Housing
35
1
Life Expectancy
36
1
Infant Mortality
36
2
Individual Racism and Institutional Racism
38
7
Individual Racism
38
1
Institutional Racism
39
6
4. THE HISTORY OF RACISM AND ANTIRACISM
45
16
Development of Antiblack Racism in the United States
46
4
African American Freedom Struggles
50
2
Twelve Lives
52
9
Frederick Douglass and Martin Deling
53
1
Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman
54
1
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
54
1
Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey
55
1
W.E.B. Du Bois and A. Philip Randolph
56
1
Paul Robeson and Bayard Rustin
57
2
Ella Baker
59
2
5. OVERCOMING RACISM
61
24
Achievements and Limitations of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
61
14
Ferment
61
3
The Movement Emerges
64
1
The Strategic Vision
65
3
Victory and Crisis
68
3
Militancy and Decline
71
2
The Price of Failure
73
2
Where Do We Go from Here?
75
10
Understanding the Insights of Malcolm X
76
3
Advancing the Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
79
6
6. PRACTICAL STEPS
85
14
Initial Reflections
85
3
A General Approach
88
4
Antiracist Work Must Be at Two Levels: Individual and Institutional
89
1
An Oppressed People Has the Right to Self-Determination
89
1
A Class approach Is a Key to Success
89
1
A Multicultural Approach Is a Key to Success
90
1
A Combination of Self-Interest and Moral Force Is Necessary
90
2
Win Real Victories and Build the Power of the Movement
92
1
Checklists and Resources
92
7
SOURCES
99
8
READINGS
107
Introduction
109
2
I. Pioneers in the Struggle for African American Liberation
111
40
Comments from 1857, 1864, and
1883
Frederick Douglass
112
4
Excerpts from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852) Martin Delaney
116
3
Speeches at Antislavery Conferences (1851 and 1853)
Sojourner Truth
119
4
(1868)
Harriet Tubman
123
1
Excerpts from Southern Horrors; Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
123
6
From 1884 Speech
Booker T. Washington
129
1777
The Niagara Address of
1906
W.E.B. Dir Bois
130
2
African Fundamentalism (1925)
Marcus Garvey
132
3
On Race, Class, and Economics (1961 and 1968)
A. Philip Randolph
135
6
On W.E.B. Du Bois (1965)
Paul Robeson
141
4
Excerpt from In Memory of A. Philip Randolph (1979)
Bayard Rustin
145
2
The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle (1969)
Ella Baker
147
4
II. Dimensions of the Black Liberation Struggle
151
40
Excerpts from Pan-Africa (1919) and Of Giving Work (1920)
W.E.B. Du Bois
152
3
Action That Will Get Results (1964)
Malcolm X
155
6
Where Do We Go from Here? (1967)
Martin Luther King Jr
161
8
Education and Empowerment (1964)
Septima P. Clark
169
3
Organization without Dictatorship (1966)
Ella Baker
172
5
One Final, Soaring Hope: Building the Campgounds of Renewal (1990)
Vincent Harding
177
8
Why Is There No Black Political Movement? (1998)
Adolph Reed Jr,
185
6
III. The U.S. Left and Antiracism
191
74
African Americans, Culture, and Communism: National Liberation and Socialism (2000)
Alan Wald
194
28
Excerpts from The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the United States (1948)
C.L.R. James
222
8
Historical Notes on Trotskyism and Black Struggle (2000)
Steve Bloom and David Finkel
230
7
A Freedom Budget for All Americans (1966)
A. Philip Randolph Institute
237
5
The Revolutionary Tradition in Afro-American Literature (1984)
Armri Baraka
242
10
The Black Panther Manifesto (1966)
Black Panther Party
252
2
General Policy Statement, Labor History, and the League's Labor Program (1971)
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
254
5
Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties (1991)
Angela Y. Davis
259
6
IV Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
265
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference (1980)
Audre Lorde
266
7
From the Social Construction of Race to the Abolition of Whiteness (1992)
David Roediger
273
15
The Case for the Real Majority (1982)
June Jordan
288
2
The Right to Life: What Can the White Man ... Say to the Black Woman? (1989)
Alice Walker
290
3
Creating a Community of a Larger Memory (1998)
Ronald Takaki
293
7
Multicultural Democracy: The Emerging Majority for Justice and Peace (1991)
Manizing Marable
300
7
Twenty Years of Black Workers for Justice (2001)
Saladin Muhammad
307