Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-332) and index.
Contents
Introduction: writing black working-class history from way, way below -- Shiftless of the world unite! -- "We are not what we seem": the politics and pleasures of community -- Congested terrain: resistance of public transportation -- Birmingham's untouchables: the black poor in the age of civil rights -- "Afric's sons with banner red": African American Communists and the politics of culture, 1919-1934 -- "This ain't Ethiopia, but it'll do": African Americans and the Spanish Civil War -- The riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black cultural politics during World War II -- Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: "Gangsta Rap" and postindustrial Los Angeles.
