D Lynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 418334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Lynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynn |
| SIGNATURE | LYNN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Indiana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3170-3644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Charisse Burden-Stelly. Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
“Dirty War: Claudia Jones and Opposition to the Indochina War”
Claudia Jones was an advocate of “positive peace.” Positive peace, as it was explained by Johan Goltung, is “the absence of structural violence” which involves the “egalitarian distribution of power and resources.” Positive peace is not just the absence of war and violence (defined as negative peace), but it also includes justice for all people and “the elimination of the root causes of war, violence, and injustice” and a concerted and unified ef…
Buzz Johnson and Claudia Jones: Black Radicalism in the Heart of Empire
Ever growing fascism: The Jean Field custody case and weaponizing family law in the United States during the Cold War
In 1940, Jean Field’s husband Vernon left her with two children, three-cents, and no groceries. Jean raised her children with progressive values and taught them to reject racism. After a ten-year absence, Vernon contested Jean’s parental fitness based on her opposition to the Korean War and antiracism. Jean defied the highly valued gender proscriptions that positioned the nuclear family as a bulwark against communist invasion and a father’s autho…
Jeffrey B. Perry. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927
Journal Article Jeffrey B. Perry. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927. Get access Jeffrey B. Perry. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. 988. Paper $40.00. Denise Lynn Denise Lynn University of Southern Indiana, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, Sep…
Shirley Graham Du Bois, Claudia Jones, and the Liberatory Potential of Peace
W.E.B. Du Bois’s peace crusade was influenced by his second wife Shirley Graham and their friend Claudia Jones. Both Graham Du Bois and Jones understood that peace was a prerequisite to global emancipation and that war and militarism affected the most vulnerable; only by securing peace would the most oppressed be liberated. By the time of Du Bois’s arrest and trial chronicled in In Battle For Peace, Jones was also under indictment for her peace w…
W.E.B. Du Bois’s In Battle for Peace: Historical and Political Perspectives
In August 1952 W.E.B. Du Bois published In Battle for Peace. Part memoir and part polemic, the book is a testament to Du Bois's later, and arguably most radical years in the Black Freedom Struggle. He wrote about being caught up in the anticommunist hysteria of the mid-20th century because of his growing devotion to the peace movement. But it is also an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist text that links war to capitalism and imperialism and argues…
Gender violence as genocide: The Rosa Lee Ingram case and We Charge Genocide petition
In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), under the leadership of William Patterson, submitted a 200+-page petition to the United Nations charging the United States with genocide against Black Americans. The meticulously researched petition documented hundreds of cases of assault, legal lynching (the use of the legal system to deny Black Americans justice) and death that all amounted to a system in which the federal government failed to protect B…
World's Oddest Toads: "Xenopus Pregnancy Tests and Animal Commodities in "Capitalist Ruins
In the 1930s it was discovered that the Xenopus toad was a useful instrument in urine pregnancy tests. An injection of a woman’s urine into a toad that resulted in the production of ova was proof of pregnancy. Extracted from its native South Africa and imported to the United States, the Xenopus was a popular tool, used to this day for high school dissection and in professional labs. But once replaced by chemical pregnancy tests, labs no longer ne…
Deporting black radicalism: Claudia Jones' deportation and policing blackness in the cold war
This article looks at the relationship between Claudia Jones, the pioneering black Marxist feminist, and the border regime of the United States. The article makes the case that Jones' denial of citizenship, legal harassment, and later expulsion was not merely a product of the transgression of the restrictive Cold War limitation of freedom of speech but instead concretely related to her Blackness. Jones is placed as a key figure in challenging the…
Day of Reckoning: Anti-Communist Fantasies in the Carlo Tresca Assassination and Juliet Stuart Poyntz Disappearance
Sometime in early June 1937, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, American communist and Soviet spy went missing never to be seen again. Her disappearance was not reported for a full seven months, after which few
Women Crusade for Peace: Claudia Jones and the Cold War Peace Movement
After World War II, peace became a central tenet of the Black freedom struggle. But it was also a liability to be associated with peace because the Soviet Union was a major advocate of the peace movement during the Cold War. Claudia Jones, a communist leader and theoretician, was an outspoken, vocal advocate for peace. She argued that war and nuclear weaponry were capitalist tools to limit freedom struggles, contain non-white populations globally…
Enlightening the Working Class: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science
(2018). Enlightening the Working Class: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 32, Socialism and Democracy in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Life, Thought, and Legacy. Guest Co-editors Edward Carson, Gerald Horne, & Phillip Luke Sinitiere, pp. 164-180
Anti-Nazism and the Fear of Pronatalism in the American Popular Front
Women in the American Communist Party believed the rise of fascism in Europe was a direct threat to women’s rights. Hitler’s rise to power and what Communists read as a push to ‘nationalize’ German women’s maternity compelled Communist women to argue that fascism was a threat to women’s rights and perpetuated false ideals of ‘natural’ gender roles. Communist women dutifully followed the party’s anti-fascist line; however, they expanded it by argu…
Gendered Narratives in Anti-Stalinism and Anti-Communism during the Cold War: The Case of Juliet Poyntz
In June 1937, Juliet Poyntz left her boarding room at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan and was never seen again. Poyntz's story might have gone unnoticed if not for the fact that she was a U.S. citizen working for Soviet foreign intelligence. Her task was to recruit others with connections to Germany who would be willing to gather intelligence on the Nazi apparatus. After she disappeared, rumors circulated that she was abdu…
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary by Lara Vapnik
Socialist Feminism and Triple Oppression: Claudia Jones and African American Women in American Communism
The Women's Charter: American Communists and the Equal Rights Amendment debate
The American Communist Party (CPUSA) opposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), arguing that it failed to ameliorate class and racial inequality. In 1936 the CPUSA participated in the Women's Charter campaign, an alternative to the ERA crafted to protect labor legislation. This article argues that the Charter campaign and the CPUSA's opposition to the ERA demonstrate class-based visions of equality that amalgamated race and gender into the class s…
Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War
Enlightening the Working Class: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science
(2018). Enlightening the Working Class: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 32, Socialism and Democracy in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Life, Thought, and Legacy. Guest Co-editors Edward Carson, Gerald Horne, & Phillip Luke Sinitiere, pp. 164-180
Gendered Narratives in Anti-Stalinism and Anti-Communism during the Cold War: The Case of Juliet Poyntz
In June 1937, Juliet Poyntz left her boarding room at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan and was never seen again. Poyntz's story might have gone unnoticed if not for the fact that she was a U.S. citizen working for Soviet foreign intelligence. Her task was to recruit others with connections to Germany who would be willing to gather intelligence on the Nazi apparatus. After she disappeared, rumors circulated that she was abdu…
Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War
Socialist Feminism and Triple Oppression: Claudia Jones and African American Women in American Communism
The Women's Charter: American Communists and the Equal Rights Amendment debate
The American Communist Party (CPUSA) opposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), arguing that it failed to ameliorate class and racial inequality. In 1936 the CPUSA participated in the Women's Charter campaign, an alternative to the ERA crafted to protect labor legislation. This article argues that the Charter campaign and the CPUSA's opposition to the ERA demonstrate class-based visions of equality that amalgamated race and gender into the class s…
Anti-Nazism and the Fear of Pronatalism in the American Popular Front
Women in the American Communist Party believed the rise of fascism in Europe was a direct threat to women’s rights. Hitler’s rise to power and what Communists read as a push to ‘nationalize’ German women’s maternity compelled Communist women to argue that fascism was a threat to women’s rights and perpetuated false ideals of ‘natural’ gender roles. Communist women dutifully followed the party’s anti-fascist line; however, they expanded it by argu…
Gendered Narratives in Anti-Stalinism and Anti-Communism during the Cold War: The Case of Juliet Poyntz
In June 1937, Juliet Poyntz left her boarding room at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan and was never seen again. Poyntz's story might have gone unnoticed if not for the fact that she was a U.S. citizen working for Soviet foreign intelligence. Her task was to recruit others with connections to Germany who would be willing to gather intelligence on the Nazi apparatus. After she disappeared, rumors circulated that she was abdu…
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary by Lara Vapnik
Enlightening the Working Class: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science
(2018). Enlightening the Working Class: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 32, Socialism and Democracy in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Life, Thought, and Legacy. Guest Co-editors Edward Carson, Gerald Horne, & Phillip Luke Sinitiere, pp. 164-180
Women Crusade for Peace: Claudia Jones and the Cold War Peace Movement
After World War II, peace became a central tenet of the Black freedom struggle. But it was also a liability to be associated with peace because the Soviet Union was a major advocate of the peace movement during the Cold War. Claudia Jones, a communist leader and theoretician, was an outspoken, vocal advocate for peace. She argued that war and nuclear weaponry were capitalist tools to limit freedom struggles, contain non-white populations globally…
Deporting black radicalism: Claudia Jones' deportation and policing blackness in the cold war
This article looks at the relationship between Claudia Jones, the pioneering black Marxist feminist, and the border regime of the United States. The article makes the case that Jones' denial of citizenship, legal harassment, and later expulsion was not merely a product of the transgression of the restrictive Cold War limitation of freedom of speech but instead concretely related to her Blackness. Jones is placed as a key figure in challenging the…
Day of Reckoning: Anti-Communist Fantasies in the Carlo Tresca Assassination and Juliet Stuart Poyntz Disappearance
Sometime in early June 1937, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, American communist and Soviet spy went missing never to be seen again. Her disappearance was not reported for a full seven months, after which few
Shirley Graham Du Bois, Claudia Jones, and the Liberatory Potential of Peace
W.E.B. Du Bois’s peace crusade was influenced by his second wife Shirley Graham and their friend Claudia Jones. Both Graham Du Bois and Jones understood that peace was a prerequisite to global emancipation and that war and militarism affected the most vulnerable; only by securing peace would the most oppressed be liberated. By the time of Du Bois’s arrest and trial chronicled in In Battle For Peace, Jones was also under indictment for her peace w…
W.E.B. Du Bois’s In Battle for Peace: Historical and Political Perspectives
In August 1952 W.E.B. Du Bois published In Battle for Peace. Part memoir and part polemic, the book is a testament to Du Bois's later, and arguably most radical years in the Black Freedom Struggle. He wrote about being caught up in the anticommunist hysteria of the mid-20th century because of his growing devotion to the peace movement. But it is also an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist text that links war to capitalism and imperialism and argues…
Gender violence as genocide: The Rosa Lee Ingram case and We Charge Genocide petition
In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), under the leadership of William Patterson, submitted a 200+-page petition to the United Nations charging the United States with genocide against Black Americans. The meticulously researched petition documented hundreds of cases of assault, legal lynching (the use of the legal system to deny Black Americans justice) and death that all amounted to a system in which the federal government failed to protect B…
World's Oddest Toads: "Xenopus Pregnancy Tests and Animal Commodities in "Capitalist Ruins
In the 1930s it was discovered that the Xenopus toad was a useful instrument in urine pregnancy tests. An injection of a woman’s urine into a toad that resulted in the production of ova was proof of pregnancy. Extracted from its native South Africa and imported to the United States, the Xenopus was a popular tool, used to this day for high school dissection and in professional labs. But once replaced by chemical pregnancy tests, labs no longer ne…
Jeffrey B. Perry. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927
Journal Article Jeffrey B. Perry. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927. Get access Jeffrey B. Perry. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. 988. Paper $40.00. Denise Lynn Denise Lynn University of Southern Indiana, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, Sep…
“Dirty War: Claudia Jones and Opposition to the Indochina War”
Claudia Jones was an advocate of “positive peace.” Positive peace, as it was explained by Johan Goltung, is “the absence of structural violence” which involves the “egalitarian distribution of power and resources.” Positive peace is not just the absence of war and violence (defined as negative peace), but it also includes justice for all people and “the elimination of the root causes of war, violence, and injustice” and a concerted and unified ef…
Buzz Johnson and Claudia Jones: Black Radicalism in the Heart of Empire
Ever growing fascism: The Jean Field custody case and weaponizing family law in the United States during the Cold War
In 1940, Jean Field’s husband Vernon left her with two children, three-cents, and no groceries. Jean raised her children with progressive values and taught them to reject racism. After a ten-year absence, Vernon contested Jean’s parental fitness based on her opposition to the Korean War and antiracism. Jean defied the highly valued gender proscriptions that positioned the nuclear family as a bulwark against communist invasion and a father’s autho…
Charisse Burden-Stelly. Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
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