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Outlaws of America : the Weather Underground and the politics of solidarity

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  • Author: Berger, Dan
    Contributor: Last, First
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    2014
    Summary:

    Outlaws of America brings to life America's most famous renegades, the Weather Underground. Based on detailed and original research, it is a gripping account of the actions and motivations of the group of white people who risked everything to oppose war and racism. At the same time, it provides a nuanced and critically engaged study demostrating the Weather Underground's contemporary significance. This engaging, and timely book tells the untold story of the Weather Underground, from its incendiary beginnings to its tumultuous end. In an unsparing critical analysis, Berger uses dozens of in-depth interviews with former Weather Underground members and other long-time activists to trace the group's evolution in relation to the civil rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements. From the Students for a Democratic Society of the 1960s through the political trials of the 1980s, Outlaws of America is a history of the Weather Underground that clearly resonates today. It is essential reading for students, activists, and anyone concerned about both the state of the world and what to do about it.

    Contents:
    • Shaking America's moral conscience : the rise of Students for a Democratic Society
    • Imperialism is the enemy : black power and the development of a structural analysis
    • An FBI bust is worth a thousand words : state repression, the movement, and the media
    • Two, three, many SDSes : the end of SDS, the beginning of new groups
    • A line in the sand : Weatherman and militant anti-racism
    • Dead ends and new beginnings : the the townhouse explosion and its aftermath
    • Fighting back : building the underground and taking on the state
    • A single spark : prairie fire and speaking from clandestinity
    • John Brown and "jaws" : new projects and the beginning of the end
    • Hard times : the end of the Weather Underground Organization
    • From underground to under lock and key : the Brink's affair and being a political prisoner
    • The politics of solidarity : lessons and legacies of the Weather Underground.
    Genre:
    History and geography, Social science
    Subject(s): Twentieth century | New Left | Political violence | Radicalism | United States
    Original Publisher: Oakland, CA : AK Press, c2006
    Language(s): English