Book contents
- Fascism in America
- Fascism in America
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Strategic Thinking about Fascism
- Part II Homegrown Nazis
- Part III White Antidemocratic Violence and Black Antifascist Activism
- 7 Vigilantism and Fascism in the Pacific Northwest
- 8 “A Heritage of Fascists without Labels”
- 9 “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA”
- Part IV Countering Fascism in Culture and Policy
- Select Bibliography
- Index
9 - “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA”
African American Activists Fight Fascism, 1960–1980s
from Part III - White Antidemocratic Violence and Black Antifascist Activism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2023
- Fascism in America
- Fascism in America
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Strategic Thinking about Fascism
- Part II Homegrown Nazis
- Part III White Antidemocratic Violence and Black Antifascist Activism
- 7 Vigilantism and Fascism in the Pacific Northwest
- 8 “A Heritage of Fascists without Labels”
- 9 “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA”
- Part IV Countering Fascism in Culture and Policy
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the late 1960s, Angela Davis and other Black activists asserted that racism was a fundamental component of fascism, and thus fascism became term and framework that Black activists used to describe the federal and state policies and practices that fostered racial inequities or obstructed Black people from achieving justice and equality. Despite the term’s origins in Europe, Black activists, such as Davis, used terms such as “fascism” and “genocide” as both a rhetorical tool and analytical framework which they hoped would wake up and compel the American public to demand an end to policies, both within and outside the American federal and state governmental apparatus. This chapter explores the contours of Black of antiracism and antifascist activism in the 1960s to the 1980s – from struggles against white supremacist collusion with the FBI and local police to assassinate black activists to the fight against state policies, such as forced sterilization of poor Black and Latina women, or the “ghettoization” of Black people in the 1970s.
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- Fascism in AmericaPast and Present, pp. 278 - 310Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023