{"title":"Silencing the Radical Black Feminist","authors":"Alexander Vesuna","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.37009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In their work Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, Carol Boyce Davies works to rescue Claudia Jones from obscurity and bring the brilliant intellectual back into dominant historical discourse. The Radical Black Feminist was erased from the history books because her intellectual thought posed a threat to the capitalist order. Claudia Jones spent her life working as a journalist allowing her intellectual thought to be brought to the masses in an attempt to build the consciousness of the people. She was key theoretician in the CPUSA and as a Black Radical Feminist Jones stood at the vanguard of revolutionary political thought working to push Marxism further left to account for the intersections of race, gender, and class. Therefore, leftist and Marxist political thought needed to be pushed further left to recognize the triple oppression that Black Women faced. Claudia Jones possessed a unique ability to speak across difference bringing different groups of people together. Her anti-capitalist political thought and this ability to bring people together was seen as a threat to the wealthy elite and the status quo, leading to her eventual deportation to Britain. This piece will work to highlight the life and contributions of Claudia Jones that has been given new life by Carol Boyce Davies.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Caribbean Quilt","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.37009","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In their work Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, Carol Boyce Davies works to rescue Claudia Jones from obscurity and bring the brilliant intellectual back into dominant historical discourse. The Radical Black Feminist was erased from the history books because her intellectual thought posed a threat to the capitalist order. Claudia Jones spent her life working as a journalist allowing her intellectual thought to be brought to the masses in an attempt to build the consciousness of the people. She was key theoretician in the CPUSA and as a Black Radical Feminist Jones stood at the vanguard of revolutionary political thought working to push Marxism further left to account for the intersections of race, gender, and class. Therefore, leftist and Marxist political thought needed to be pushed further left to recognize the triple oppression that Black Women faced. Claudia Jones possessed a unique ability to speak across difference bringing different groups of people together. Her anti-capitalist political thought and this ability to bring people together was seen as a threat to the wealthy elite and the status quo, leading to her eventual deportation to Britain. This piece will work to highlight the life and contributions of Claudia Jones that has been given new life by Carol Boyce Davies.
卡罗尔·博伊斯·戴维斯(Carol Boyce Davies)在其著作《卡尔·马克思的左派:黑人共产主义者克劳迪娅·琼斯的政治生活》(Left of Karl Marx:The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones)中,致力于将克劳迪娅·Jones从默默无闻中拯救出来,并将这位才华横溢的知识分子带回主导历史话语中。这位激进的黑人女权主义者被从历史书中抹去,因为她的思想对资本主义秩序构成了威胁。克劳迪娅·琼斯(Claudia Jones)的一生都是一名记者,她将自己的思想传播给大众,试图建立人们的意识。她是美国共产党的关键理论家,作为一名黑人激进女权主义者,琼斯站在革命政治思想的先锋,致力于推动马克思主义进一步左倾,以解释种族、性别和阶级的交叉点。因此,左派和马克思主义政治思想需要进一步左倾,以认识到黑人妇女面临的三重压迫。克劳迪娅·琼斯拥有一种独特的能力,能够跨越差异,将不同的群体聚集在一起。她的反资本主义政治思想和这种将人们团结在一起的能力被视为对富裕精英和现状的威胁,导致她最终被驱逐到英国。这篇文章将突出克劳迪娅·琼斯的生活和贡献,卡罗尔·博伊斯·戴维斯赋予了她新的生命。