On today’s show – a new take on an old classic – the 1948 Negro Liberation by Harry Haywood was written while he was a member of the Communist Party. The book makes the case that the Black Belt South constitutes a nation and is a colony inside of the Imperial United States. It also charts a pathway to Black self determination based on the political conditions of the time. The book has been re-released by Haymarket Books with a forward by Harry Haywood’s daughter Dr Rebecca Hall and an introduction by Charisse Burden-Stelly.
Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University and the author of Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.
Rebecca Hall, JD PhD is an independent scholar, activist, and educator. Her paternal grandparents were born enslaved and she is the daughter of