Although reviewer Cobban finds many faults in this book, her essay shows how this volume is nevertheless a useful guide to this relatively under-discussed chapter of 1960s and 1970s movement history.
This book is an important addition to U.S. left wing movement history. This brief author interview appears on the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). James and Grace Lee Boggs were independent Marxist revolutionaries who worked in Detroit beginning in the 1940s, were among the earliest theorists of 1960s Black Power, and were influential in the revolutionary movement in Detroit as well as nationally and internationally.
Spread the word