Living for Change: An Autobiography
No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. James. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of the Black Panthers to later efforts to rebuild crumbling urban communities, Living for Change is an exhilarating look at a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to social justice.

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Living for Change: An Autobiography
No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. James. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of the Black Panthers to later efforts to rebuild crumbling urban communities, Living for Change is an exhilarating look at a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to social justice.

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Living for Change: An Autobiography

Living for Change: An Autobiography

by Grace Lee Boggs
Living for Change: An Autobiography

Living for Change: An Autobiography

by Grace Lee Boggs

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No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. James. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of the Black Panthers to later efforts to rebuild crumbling urban communities, Living for Change is an exhilarating look at a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to social justice.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781517901486
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 08/03/2016
Series: PostHumanities
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 649,397
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) was a first-generation Chinese American author, philosopher, and social activist. She is the subject of the 2013 film American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.

Table of Contents

Foreword Robin D. G. Kelley ix

Introduction xix

1 East Is East-Or Is It! 1

2 From Philosophy to Politics 21

3 C. L. R. James 45

4 Jimmy 75

5 "The City Is the Black Man's Land" 117

6 Beyond Rebellion 143

7 "Going Back" to China 191

8 New Dreams for the Twenty-First Century 209

9 On My Own 241

Notes 273

Index 291

What People are Saying About This

Robin D.G. Kelly

"Living for Change might be the most important political memoir of the second half of the twentieth century. Grace Lee Boggs has written a brilliant, crucial memoir. This book is a jewel."

Studs Terkel

"More than a deeply moving memoir, this is a book of revelation. Grace Lee Boggs, Chinese American, middle class, highly educated, discovers through her encounters with remarkable rebels, blue collars as well as philosophers, where the body is buried: who is doing what to whom in our society. It is an adventure that is truly liberating."

Cornel West

"Grace Lee Boggs has made a fundamental difference in keeping alive the traditions of the struggles for freedoma nd democracy."

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