Communists In Closets

Author : Bettina Aptheker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000650686

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Communists in Closets by Bettina Aptheker Pdf

Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as "degenerates." It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers in political history, gender studies, and the history of sexuality.

Author : Robert W. Cherny
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252056710

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San Francisco Reds by Robert W. Cherny Pdf

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s CP from its founding through 1958. Cherny draws on FBI files, the records of the CP at the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, interviews, and memoirs to follow male and female party and union leaders, rank-and-file members, and others. His history reveals why people joined the CP while charting the frequent changes in policy, constant member turnover, and disruptive factionalism that limited party aims and successes. Cherny also follows his subjects through their resignations, expulsions, or other reasons for departure and looks at the CP’s influence on their lives in subsequent years. Vivid and exhaustively researched, San Francisco Reds is a long view account of the personal motivations and activism of an Old Left generation in a West Coast city.

Author : Francisca de Haan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031131271

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The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World by Francisca de Haan Pdf

This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women’s lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structures and inequalities of their societies, the formal networks and politics in which they were involved, and the informal connections and friendships that supported their activism both at the national and international level. Challenging androcentric and Eurocentric narratives about communism, this Handbook reveals the active and significant roles of women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century communist movements and regimes, and highlights the importance of communist women in shaping the agenda for women’s rights worldwide.

Author : Monika Nalepa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521514453

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Skeletons in the Closet by Monika Nalepa Pdf

This book explores pacted transitions to democracy, in which former autocrats are granted amnesty in exchange for allowing free elections.

Author : Michael Scott Cain
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476674728

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Folk Music and the New Left in the Sixties by Michael Scott Cain Pdf

Artists have often provided the earliest demonstrations of conscience and ethical examination in response to political events. The political shifts that took place in the 1960s were addressed by a revival of folk music as an expression of protest, hope and the courage to imagine a better world. This work explores the relationship between the cultural and political ideologies of the 1960s and the growing folk music movement, with a focus on musicians Phil Ochs; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary; Carolyn Hester and Bob Dylan.

Author : Frank L. Britton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Communism and Judaism
ISBN : 9781300066057

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Behind Communism by Frank L. Britton Pdf

Author : Lavinia Stan,Nadya Nedelsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107065567

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Post-Communist Transitional Justice by Lavinia Stan,Nadya Nedelsky Pdf

Explores how the former communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes.

Author : Bernard Livingston
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595144877

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Closet Red by Bernard Livingston Pdf

CLOSET RED, A Marxist's Adventures Inside the Ruling Class, is the historical (and sometimes hysterical) documentation of writer, Bernard Livingston's life within the employ of some of America's wealthiest and most powerful families, to whom he quite often became a friend and confidant. Unaware of his "red aroma" Bernard Livingston was able to "snoop around Camelot" and he now recounts the adventures with and insights into some of the key families associated with the American political machine such as the Kennedys, the Whitneys and many others.

Author : Institute for International Labor Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Dominican Republic
ISBN : UOM:39015005917847

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Dominican Republic: a Study in the New Imperialism by Institute for International Labor Research Pdf

Author : Jane Lazarre
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822372387

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The Communist and the Communist's Daughter by Jane Lazarre Pdf

In a letter to his baby grandson, Bill Lazarre wrote that "unfortunately, despite the attempts by your grandpa and many others to present you with a better world, we were not very successful." Born in 1902 amid the pogroms in Eastern Europe, Lazarre dedicated his life to working for economic equality, racial justice, workers' rights, and a more just world. He was also dedicated to his family, especially his daughters, whom he raised as a single father following his wife’s death. In The Communist and the Communist's Daughter Jane Lazarre weaves memories of her father with documentary materials—such as his massive FBI file—to tell her father's fascinating history as a communist, a Jew, and a husband, father, and grandfather. Soon after immigrating to the United States as a young man, Lazarre began a long career as a radical activist, being convicted of sedition, holding leadership positions in the American Communist Party, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, organizing labor unions, testifying in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and resisting the FBI’s efforts to recruit him as an informant. Through periods of heroism and deep despair Lazarre never abandoned his ideals or his sustained faith in the fundamental goodness of people. This is also the story of Jane as she grew up, married an African American civil rights activist, and became a mother and a writer while coming to terms with her father’s legacy. She recounts her arguments with her father over ideology, but also his profound influence on her life. Throughout this poignant and beautifully written work, Jane examines memory, grief, love, and conscience while detailing the sacrifices, humanity, and unwavering convictions of a man who worked tirelessly to create a brighter future for us all.

Author : Bettina Aptheker
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580054409

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Intimate Politics by Bettina Aptheker Pdf

At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her family's politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her father, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, testified on television in front of the House on Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. Born into one of the most influential U.S. Communist families whose friends included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bettina lived her parents' politics witnessing first-hand one of the most dramatic upheavals in American history. She also lived with a terrible secret: incest at the hands of her famous father and a frightening and lonely life lived inside a home wrought with family tensions. A gripping and beautifully rendered memoir, Intimate Politics is at its core the story of one woman's struggle to still the demons of her personal world while becoming a controversial public figure herself. This is the story of childhood sexual abuse, abortion, sexual violence, activism, and the triumph over one's past. It's about FBI harassment and persecution, Jewish heritage, and lesbian identity. It is, finally, about the courage to speak one's truth despite the consequences and to break the sacred silence of family secrets.

Author : Gordon C. Stewart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532600661

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Be Still! by Gordon C. Stewart Pdf

Be Still! Departure from Collective Madness echoes the call of the Navajo sage and the psalmist who invited their hearers to stop--"If we keep going this way, we're going to get where we're going"--and be still--"Be still, and know. . . ." Like pictures in a photo album taken from a unique lens, these essays zoom in on singular moments of time where the world is making headlines, drawing attention to the sin of exceptionalism in its national, racial, religious, cultural, and species manifestations. Informed by Japanese Christian theologian Kosuke Koyama, Elie Wiesel, Wendell Berry, and others, the author invites the reader to slow down, be still, and depart from "collective madness" before the Navajo sage is right. Told in the voice familiar to listeners of All Things Considered and Minnesota Public Radio, these poetic essays sometimes feel as familiar as an old family photo album, but the pictures themselves are taken from a thought-provoking angle.

Author : Sam Wineburg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226357355

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Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) by Sam Wineburg Pdf

A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information. Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the Internet at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? In Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), professor Sam Wineburg has the answers, beginning with this: We can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-question snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands. Praise for Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) “If every K-12 teacher of history and social studies read just three chapters of this book—”Crazy for History,” “Changing History . . . One Classroom at a Time,” and “Why Google Can’t Save Us” —the ensuing transformation of our populace would save our democracy.” —James W. Lowen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened “A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. . . . A bracing, edifying, and vital book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker staff writer and author of These Truths “Wineburg is a true innovator who has thought more deeply about the relevance of history to the Internet—and vice versa—than any other scholar I know. Anyone interested in the uses and abuses of history today has a duty to read this book.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and author of The Ascent of Money and Civilization

Author : Michael Hollinger
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 0822217880

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Red Herring by Michael Hollinger Pdf

THE STORY: Three love stories, a murder mystery, and a nuclear espionage plot converge in this noir comedy about marriage and other explosive devices. It's 1952: America's on the verge of the H-bomb, Dwight Eisenhower's on the campaign trail

Author : Karla Jay,Allen Young
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780814741832

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Out of the Closets by Karla Jay,Allen Young Pdf

A series of essays concerning the Gay Liberation Movement, from individuals and groups associated with the movement.