Revisit History (with Prof. Robin D.G. Kelley)
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The Struggle for Social Theory
The problem with historians, with a lotof history, is that we end up revisiting the same movements. So part of what the book tries to do is talk about those movements that we don't always look at. In all the movements from incobra to queen mother moor, in the fight for reparations, the fight for land. You know, it's another one that we have struggled not just to confront state power, but to flee, to get away, to get out of dodge. That goes back to maronage. Maroon societyis going back to the days of the early days enslavement and capture. And so what you witness is the tradition, not necessary
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