African-American leftism

{{Short description|Black American political currents in favor of social equality and egalitarianism}}

{{Hatnote|For Leftism among African-Caribbeans, see Afro-Caribbean leftism}}

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African-American leftism refers to left-wing political currents that have developed among various African-American communities in the United States.{{Cite journal |last=Smethurst |first=James |date=1997 |title=Review of Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3042583 |journal=African American Review |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=518–520 |doi=10.2307/3042583 |jstor=3042583 |issn=1062-4783}} These currents are active around social issues, and often call for an African-American led movement that aims at bringing about some form of socialism between the African-American community and White community and other minority groups.{{Cite book |last1=Lazerow |first1=Jama |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mi2G28ZcmvsC |title=In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement |last2=Williams |first2=Yohuru |date=2006-10-31 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-3890-1 |pages=206–270 |language=en}}