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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Oblivion of the Interval -- 2. Being in Place -- 3. The Aporia between Envelope and Things -- 4. Dualism in Bergson -- 5. Interval, Sexual Difference -- 6. Beyond Man: Rethinking Life and Matter -- Conclusion: Interval as Relation, Interval as Becoming -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. John Brown: The Left's Great Man -- 2. Haymarket -- 3. Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense: Intersections and Contradictions -- 4. No Wives or Family Encumber Them: Sacco and Vanzetti -- 5. The Communist Party and the Defense Tradition from Scottsboro to the Rosenbergs -- 6. Born Guilty: George Jackson and the Return of the Lumpen Hero -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Examines the life & impact of Claudia Jones, Trinidadian activist, whose work in the Communist Parties in the United States & England is recovered & assessed. Discussions of Americans' view of Jones; the ultra-left & popular front conflict black women's political organizing; black feminist communists & the New Left; women & wartime transformations; fascism & misogyny; women & combat, home, work, capitalist oppression, & middle-class life precede a concluding examination of race, class, & gender in Jones's writings. It is hoped that this review of feminism's history challenges the idealized image of woman that white & black women can use to rebuild the feminist movement. R. Rodriguez

Compares the anti-lynching movement (epitomized the NAACP) to the movement in defense of labor activists (epitomized by the ACLU), and the rhetorical strategies they used to shape public opinion.