Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

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Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. One person found this helpful. Carole is brilliant and this is such an important and beautiful read! The life and work of Claudia Jones is a vibrant expression of the rich history of black communist women in the U. Alongside black revolutionary women such as Assata Shakur and Angela Davis, Claudia Jones goes down in a history as a must-know idol.



Davies does an excellent job here of analyzing the multi-faceted personality, intellect, and impressive skill of Jones as an organizer and leader of working-class and oppressed communities in the U. I have read biographies that emphasize Jones as a passionate and tireless agitator, and which have made little effort to show that she was a serious Marxist-Leninist intellectual - Davies takes care of that discrepancy here.

She also does not hesitate to analyze her private life - for Jones, the personal was political and those two spheres could not be so easily or radically separate. I would highly recommend this book to anyone exploring the history and tradition of the black communist and black feminist left in the U. Interesting woman and life.

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It brilliantly performs the task of resurrection made intellectually necessary when the status-quo takes such important figures away from us and then tries to erase their memory, to boot. Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.



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Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chronology Introduction. Recovering the Radical Black Female Subject: Anti-Imperialism, Feminism, and Activism 1. Challenging the Superexploitation of Black Working Women 2. From "Half the World" to the Whole World: Journalism as Black Transnational Political Practice 3.

In the introduction, Davies talks about how Jones' life and work were very much ahead of her time, and relevant to the politics of anti-oppression, and linked oppressions that modern feminist and left movements struggle with to this day. Davies describes the black subject, such as Claudia Jones, as a body that can challenge the status quo from several subject locations: The radical black subject, male or female, challenges the normalizing of state oppression, constructs an alternative discourse, and articulates these both theoretically and in practice.

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The revolutionary subject works in a movement geared toward dismantling that oppressive status. Jones talked about the "superexploitation" of black working-class women. For Jones, the ideas and practices were inseparable, "that our current geopolitical locations are products of multiple historical processes, many of which we had no control over, which have produced us, as subjects, in various 'nation-states' of the world.

Despite harassment and threats, Jones continued her writing and activism, rising to the level of Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Review , the Communist Party newspaper in , Editor of the Negro Affairs section of the Daily Worker in , and was elected a full member of the National Committee of Communist Party USA in as well.

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In January , Jones was arrested for the first time, and was threatened with deportation to Trinidad. While out on bail she spoke at May Day rallies across the country, and worked on issues relating to the working class, peace, equality and black women. She recruited for the Party, even as the FBI continued to gather evidence to be used for her deportation hearing. In , Jones was convicted for one year and a day, a shorter sentence than two other women arrested with her, due to her health issues.

She was released after serving nine months, and her deportation order came shortly afterwards. Davies makes a number of references to the parallels of Jones' treatment in the United Stated during the era, the McCarthy Era, and the recent restrictions on civil liberties within the United States since September 11, Parallels include imprisonment and deportation based on nothing more than affiliations with certain groups considered to be current enemies of the United States, the enacting of the USA-Patriot Act in whose full name is "Uniting and Strengthening American by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.

This is a dense, academic, and thorough book about the life of a Black feminist theorist that more people should know about.

It is my hope that this is the start of a revival of Jones' life and work.