Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University. She is the coauthor of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the coeditor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing and Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State, a collection of essays by Percy C. Hintzen.

“Burden-Stelly offers an insightful case study that is historically specific to the reality of racism in capitalist America. In turn, she engages her impressive knowledge concerning the nuances between Black radical actors and their organizations. This book will establish Burden-Stelly as a top theorist in the area of Black radical anticapitalist scholarship. In a real sense, she has broken new ground in ways that bring together aspects of Black experience that rarely get combined.”

• IntroductionPart I. Black Scare / Red Scare Foundation: Political Economy and the Threat of Radical Blackness1. Theorizing US Capitalist Racist Society2. The Black Scare, the Red Scare, and the Threat of Radical Blackness3. Genres of Radical Blackness4. The Negro Question as a National Question, the Structural Location of Blackness, and the Problem of Black Self-Determination5. Wall Street Imperialism and Expropriation Abroad6. War, Wall Street Imperialism, (Inter-)National AccumulationPart II. Black Scare / Red Scare Codification: Governance and Legitimating Architecture7. Theorizing Anticommunism as a Mode of Governance8. Loyalty, Criminality, and “Clear and Present Danger”: The Anticommunist Governance of the Executive and Judicial Branches9. Sedition, Subversion, and National Security: The Anticommunist Governance of the Legislative Branch10. The Countersubversive Political Tradition and the Threat of US Fascism11. True Americanism: The Legitimating Architecture of US Capitalist Racist SocietyEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University. She is the coauthor of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the coeditor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing and Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State, a collection of essays by Percy C. Hintzen.

“Burden-Stelly offers an insightful case study that is historically specific to the reality of racism in capitalist America. In turn, she engages her impressive knowledge concerning the nuances between Black radical actors and their organizations. This book will establish Burden-Stelly as a top theorist in the area of Black radical anticapitalist scholarship. In a real sense, she has broken new ground in ways that bring together aspects of Black experience that rarely get combined.”

• IntroductionPart I. Black Scare / Red Scare Foundation: Political Economy and the Threat of Radical Blackness1. Theorizing US Capitalist Racist Society2. The Black Scare, the Red Scare, and the Threat of Radical Blackness3. Genres of Radical Blackness4. The Negro Question as a National Question, the Structural Location of Blackness, and the Problem of Black Self-Determination5. Wall Street Imperialism and Expropriation Abroad6. War, Wall Street Imperialism, (Inter-)National AccumulationPart II. Black Scare / Red Scare Codification: Governance and Legitimating Architecture7. Theorizing Anticommunism as a Mode of Governance8. Loyalty, Criminality, and “Clear and Present Danger”: The Anticommunist Governance of the Executive and Judicial Branches9. Sedition, Subversion, and National Security: The Anticommunist Governance of the Legislative Branch10. The Countersubversive Political Tradition and the Threat of US Fascism11. True Americanism: The Legitimating Architecture of US Capitalist Racist SocietyEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex