Black Communist Women’s Political Writing w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two fantastic guests, Prof. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Prof. Jodi Dean. We discuss their co-edited collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing, which is an absolutely indispensable resource for those of us serious about achieving liberation! This collection includes writings focused on the period from 1919-1956, which argue that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism. Pick up the book!

Dr. CBS is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is an organizer with Black Alliance for Peace and a Co-Author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History alongside our mutual friend Gerald Horne. She can be followed on twitter @blackleftaf or on her website https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/.

Dr. Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of numerous books including Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging, Crowds and Party, and The Communist Horizon. She can be followed on twitter @jodi7768.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:22.9	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:37.1	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host, Henry
0:38.5	Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of
0:44.3	the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing
0:48.5	today? I'm doing great, Henry. It's a pleasure to be with you. Absolutely. It's always a pleasure
0:53.3	seeing you. And also joined, as usual, by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing? I'm doing okay. I'm a little under the weather. I have two young boys. I feel like I'm always constantly sick. But I would not miss this episode for the world. I'm a huge fan of both Jody Dean and Dr. CBS, and I cannot wait to dive into this conversation.
0:55.8	Yeah, absolutely. But I would not miss this episode for the world. I'm a huge fan of both Jody, Dean, and Dr. CBS.
1:11.8	And I cannot wait to dive into this conversation.
1:14.5	Yeah, absolutely.
1:15.4	These are also two scholars that I'm a big fan of.
1:17.7	Before I bring them in, I want to mention that this is the second edition of our new series of sources and methods.
1:25.3	Adnan, would you mind if I turned it over to you to give a very
1:28.0	brief reminder to the listeners of what the sources and methods series that we're running is?
1:34.3	Sure. It's just a series that highlights primary sources, documents themselves, writings of
1:42.8	radical activists in the past. In the past, we've had
1:47.5	lots of different kinds of episodes and often related to books. People had written historians,
1:54.0	characterizing events and so on. But this is a special focus and attention on the writings and documents produced by activists themselves.
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