Books
‘Popo and Fifina’: A love letter to Haiti from Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
October 31, 2024Langston Hughes traveled to Haiti in April 1931 and lived in Port-au-Prince for about three months. He observed the ongoing brutal occupation of the country by U.S. Marines, along with the economic exploitation of the independent...
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A true American horror story: ‘Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum’
October 31, 2024The new book details how, before the turn toward mass incarceration in the 1970s, Black people in disproportionate numbers were institutionalized in mental hospitals, where they were assigned to forced labor regimes and other kinds of...
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New book opens imaginative doors to understanding Lenin’s global legacy
October 2, 2024The book’s strength lies in the fact that most contributors avoid clichés about Stalinism or self-pitying laments about what did or did not happen after the fateful October Revolution of 1917.
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Rediscovering radical Palestinian cinema as hope for today and the future
October 2, 2024The title of Terri Ginsberg’s monograph Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema hardly hints at the theoretical breadth and depth of the work which is incredibly prescient in these perilous...
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‘Dickinson in Yiddish’ gathers 50 years of writings by socialist Marvin Zuckerman
September 24, 2024I guess by way of full disclosure I should state at the outset that I’ve known Marvin Zuckerman for almost 30 years, from the time I assumed the directorship of the Southern California District of Workers...
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