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CHALLENGING THE WHITE SUPREMACIST SYSTEM:
ANTIRACIST ORGANIZING AND MULTIRACIAL ALLIANCE
IN THE UNITED STATES
by
Jeb Aram Middlebrook
________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
August 2011
Copyright 2011 Jeb Aram Middlebrook
Object Description
| Title | Challenging the white supremacist system: antiracist organizing and multiracial alliance in the United States |
| Author | Middlebrook, Jeb Aram |
| Author email | jmiddleb@usc.edu;jebmiddlebrook@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies and Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-08 |
| Date submitted | 2011-07-16 |
| Date approved | 2011-07-18 |
| Restricted until | 2011-07-18 |
| Date published | 2011-07-18 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Jacobs, Lanita |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Pulido, Laura Kelley, Robin D.G. Gualtieri, Sarah Gross, Ariela |
| Abstract | This dissertation is an interdisciplinary, ethnic studies project that traces a genealogy of white people and people of color using race to organize and mobilize allied grassroots resistance against the white supremacist system. Unique among projects on social movements, this study examines cases of white people and people of color organizing in allied, but racially separate, community formations -- or what the author terms ""autonomous-affiliate organizing"" -- as part of a larger, multiracial strategy to end white supremacist capitalism and imperialism. The study analyzes, in particular, the political uses of race by community organizers to build power to challenge the white supremacist system. ❧ Employing historical, textual, and ethnographic research methods, the project places community organizing at the center of antiracist theory and practice, and considers the implications of organizing for identity, agency, and power within and beyond both white and people of color communities. In order to make its case, the study mines organizational records, news articles, government documents, memoirs, manifestos, letters, films, photographs, and interviews representing the social, political, and historical context of five multiracial alliances against the white supremacist system from the dawn of the civil rights movement to the current ""post-racial"" era. ❧ The project analyzes these multiracial alliances through individual case studies, which include: 1) Southern Conference Education Fund and the Southern Student Organizing Committee in alliance with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the South from 1960-1969, 2) Young Patriots in alliance with the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Organization, the American Indian Movement and the Red Guard in Chicago from 1969-1970, 3) Motor City Labor League in alliance with the League of Black Revolutionary Workers in Detroit from 1969-1970, 4) Weather Underground and Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in a national alliance with the American Indian Movement, the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, and the Palestine Liberation Organization, among other organizations, from 1971-1976, and 5) the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere -- Los Angeles in alliance with the Labor/Strategy Community Center, South Asian Network, and Community Coalition in Los Angeles from 2006-2008. At a time when organizing across race succeeded in electing the first black president of the United States, but fails to resolve continuing racial and economic inequalities, this project offers an analysis of the possibilities and limitations of antiracist organizing and multiracial alliance for building mass-based social justice movements. |
| Keyword | anti-capitalism; anti-imperialism; antiracism; antiracist organizing; multiracial alliance; white supremacist system; white antiracist organizing; antiracist whiteness; allied whiteness studies; autonomous-affiliate organizing; racial justice; social justice; economic justice; white supremacy; social movement; movement building; base building; community organizing; people of color; white people; race; racism; anti-racism; anti-racist; multi-racial |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Middlebrook, Jeb Aram |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-Middlebroo-100.pdf |
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| Full text | CHALLENGING THE WHITE SUPREMACIST SYSTEM: ANTIRACIST ORGANIZING AND MULTIRACIAL ALLIANCE IN THE UNITED STATES by Jeb Aram Middlebrook ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Jeb Aram Middlebrook |
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