Scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen join us to discuss their very new book The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back From Anti-Lynching to Abolition, which shows that Black intellectuals and activities have always been vanguards in antifascist thought and organizing. In the conversation, they offer a rich overview of the work, which offers readers an introduction into history, Black political thought, and a roadmap for contemporary organizing. You can purchase the book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2223-the-black-antifascist-tradition

Further Reading:

Mia Bay, To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Civil Rights Congress, We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People

Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized

Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns

Dan Berger, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Angela Davis, They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution

Dave “Mac” Marquis, Moira Marquis, et al., Books through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement

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Our theme music is “Uprising” by Ed Blackwell and Wadada Leo Smith from a session recorded live in 1986 at WBRS/Brandeis University and released as the record “The Blue Mountain’s Sun Drummer” in 2010 on Kabell.

In our debut episode, Anna spoke with Emmy-nominated journalist and former Charlottesville resident Nora Neus, author of 24 Hours in Charlottesville An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy.

You can learn more and purchase a copy of Nora's book here (https://www.akpress.org/24-hours-in-charlottesville.html) or wherever books are sold!

This podcast is brought to you by the April Institute.

Our theme music is "Uprising" by Ed Blackwell and Wadada Leo Smith from a session recorded live in 1986 at WBRS/Brandeis University and released in 2010 on Kabell. 

Host Anna Duensing offers an introduction to the podcast and to the April Institute, where the idea for this show came from, what its goals are, and how she first got interested in the subject of the Black Antifascist Tradition and (anti)fascism in the U.S. context more generally.

The songs cited toward the end are Paul Robeson, "Peat Bog Soldiers" (Die Moorsoldaten), Leadbelly, "Mr. Hitler," and Jazz Gillum, "War Time Blues."