Thinking with James and Grace Lee Boggs | Red May 2021

Описание: Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied Hegel, worked with Caribbean political theorist C. L. R. James, and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was influential in the early stages of what would become the Black Power movement, laying the intellectual foundation for racial and urban struggles during one of the most active social movement periods in recent U.S. history. Taking Stephen Ward’s dual biography of these two crucial figures as a point of departure, the author and the panel will discuss the intellectual strain of black radicalism shaped by Boggses and their rightful place in postwar American history.

Stephen Ward, Cedric Johnson, Colleen Lye, Matt Birkhold (mod)

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