Radical Relevance

Introduction


Toward a Scholarship of the "Whole Left"
Steven Rosendale


I. Legacies of Marxism


1. Black Nationalist Identity and Internationalist Class Unity: The Political and Cultural Legacy of Marxism
Alan Wald


2. Race, Class, and Communism: The Young Ralph Ellison and the "Whole Left"
Barbara Foley


3. Toward a Political Economy of Rhetoric (or a Rhetoric of Political Economy)
Victor Villanueva


II. Left Coalitions Beyond the Triad


4. The Left Side of the Circle: American Indians and Progressive Politics
Scott Richard Lyons


5. Reconciling Red and Green
Michael Bennett


6. A Monstrous Emerge-agency: Cripping the "Whole Left"
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Wendy L. Chrisman, Marian E. Lupo


7. What the Left Left Out
Derek Owens


III. The Academic Left, Critical Theory, and the Global Context


8. Globalizing Dissent and Radicalizing Democracy: Politics, Pedagogy, and the Responsibility of Critical Intellectuals
Henry A. Giroux


9. Toward a Contemporary Philosophy of Praxis
Noah De Lissovoy, Peter McLaren


10. Global/Local Labor Politics and the Promise of Service Learning
Wendy S. Hesford


11. Between School and Work: Classroom and Class
Evan Watkins


12. Another World Is Possible
Mark Wood


13. Feminism(s) and the Left: A Discussion with Linda Martín Alcoff
Laura Gray-Rosendale


Contributors


Index