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  • Published: 1 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9780807019412
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 184
  • RRP: $55.00

Unapologetic

A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements




A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition.

A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition.

Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development. It also offers a flexible model of what deeply effective organizing can be, anchored in the Chicago model of activism, which features long-term commitment, cultural sensitivity, creative strategizing, and multiple cross-group alliances. And Unapologetic provides a clear framework for activists committed to building transformative power, encouraging young people to see themselves as visionaries and leaders.

  • Published: 1 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9780807019412
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 184
  • RRP: $55.00

Praise for Unapologetic

"Charlene Carruthers carries the burden, the beauty, the wisdom of four hundred years of Black struggle. But she also brings a critical perspective and a creative vision, rooted in her extensive experience as an organizer and organic intellectual and in her fierce and fearless commitment to truth. This is an inspiring, powerful, but difficult book, because she confronts our movements, our people..."
--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination