Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Shaping of Global Black Consciousness
For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of black radicals of the era. With never-before-seen texts from Stokely Carmichael, Walter Rodney, and C. L. R. James, these documents will prove invaluable to anyone interested in black radical thought and political activism of the 1960s. Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West and ongoing colonialism and imperialism in the Global South, this group of activists, writers, and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of black power.
David Austin is an author and educator. He teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
Other publications from this author include:
- DREAD POETRY AND FREEDOM: LINTON KWESI JOHNSON AND THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION (2018)
- Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013)
- "Narratives of power: historical mythologies in contemporary Québec and Canada" in Race & Class, 52 (1) (2010)
- You Don't Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009)