{"product_id":"rehearsing-the-future-michael-doan-9781849356145","title":"Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA foremost contemporary theory of social change explained that shows us how the future must be built day by day.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRehearsing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e explores the work and legacy of James and Grace Lee Boggs, two of the most influential American radical thinkers of the twentieth century. Grace Lee Boggs earned a PhD in philosophy in the 1940s, though facing obstacles to an academic career as a young Chinese American woman, she left and became a political organizer in Detroit, where she met and married James Boggs, a Black autoworker and labor organizer from Alabama who had moved North during the Great Migration. Over the course of more than forty years of partnership and participation in labor, civil rights, Black Power, anticolonial, and feminist movements, the Boggses articulated a philosophy of long-term revolutionary strategy they called \"dialectical humanism.\" Rejecting state socialism and traditional Marxism, dialectical humanism instead attributes social change to the conscious, collective activity of people engaged in place-based organizing with a view to transforming everyday life, with hallmark projects such as community gardens, daycare networks, and mediation programs. Above all, revolution is not a fixed program but must evolve as ideas, movements, and institutions are changed through collective practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough their life work and publications, James and Grace Lee Boggs modeled how to do philosophy from within movements. In \u003ci\u003eRehearsing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Doan lays out the intellectual history of dialectical humanism, the far-reaching theory and practice that continues to guide movement-building around the world, inspiring forms of activism such as visionary organizing and emergent strategy. This book is for scholars and activists interested in the theoretical underpinnings of today's community movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Doan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1849356149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849356145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Michael Doan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874529915135,"sku":"9781849356145","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rehearsing-the-future-michael-doan-9781849356145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}