Class Warfare in Black Atlanta
Book • 2025
Augustus Wood's 'Class Warfare in Black Atlanta' analyzes the struggle of the Black working class to defend urban space and build liberation during the Black Power era and beyond.
The book argues gentrification functions as a stage of internal neocolonialism and sub-proletarianization, linking labor restructuring, policing, surveillance, and elite local politics.
Wood centers working-class voices using radical newspapers, oral histories, and archival sources to show grassroots strategies and repression.
He critiques the Black petty-bourgeois leadership and urban regime that partnered with capital to privatize public resources and displace residents.
The work offers a framework for contemporary organizing by exposing historical mechanisms that weaken community formation and collective power.
The book argues gentrification functions as a stage of internal neocolonialism and sub-proletarianization, linking labor restructuring, policing, surveillance, and elite local politics.
Wood centers working-class voices using radical newspapers, oral histories, and archival sources to show grassroots strategies and repression.
He critiques the Black petty-bourgeois leadership and urban regime that partnered with capital to privatize public resources and displace residents.
The work offers a framework for contemporary organizing by exposing historical mechanisms that weaken community formation and collective power.
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