Roderick Bush

Roderick Bush "is an associate professor of Sociology at St. John's University in  New York City. He is a recent Ph.D. after many years in the movement for Black liberation  and social change.  In 1984 he published an edited volume, The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities.   This was followed by We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century, New York University Press, 1999) and The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line  (Temple  University Press, 2009).  He is currently working with Melanie E.L. Bush on a book entitled  Tensions in the “American” Dream: The Imperial Nation Confronts the Liberation of Nations to be  published by Temple University Press in 2010.  He has been a member of the Movement for African American Unity, the Congress of African People, the Student Organization for Black Unity/Youth Organization for Black Unity, the African Liberation Support Committee, the Revolutionary Workers League (M-L), and the Black Radical Congress. "


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