{"product_id":"taming-the-revolution-white-power-and-the-fear-of-black-freedom-1","title":"Taming the Revolution: White Power and the Fear of Black Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Joshua Briond\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaymarket Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10\/20\/2026, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9780745349640\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the founding of the United States, the white power structure has engaged in an unceasing effort to disorganize and sedate its Black population through incremental concessions and symbolic gestures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Briond shows how these \"colonial lullabies\" have shaped the course of American history. Recontextualizing major historical events--from the Civil War through to the civil rights movement, the expansion of the carceral state and even the Obama presidency--he argues that each period produced distinct types of reform, all deployed to neutralize Black struggles and sustain white hegemony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaming the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e builds a schematic genealogy of the white power structures and their shapeshifting capacities. By addressing the political and cultural technologies of present-day neoliberal reformism--an ever-evolving toolkit of pacification, domestication and cooptation--Briond demystifies different forms of state and extra-state adaptation to the insurgencies of oppressed peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Taming the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a Black radical archive as it dismantles the perpetual counterinsurgency of U.S. nation-building. Neither the 'consumer-lyncher citizenry' nor its collaborators can survive the implications of Joshua Briond's Black liberationist historical counternarrative.\" -- Dylan Rodríguez, author of \u003ci\u003eCounterinsurgency Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Cuts through the mystification of democratic destabilization of liberation struggles steered by conventional \"progressive\" organizing. Briond skillfully details how radicalism and Black freedom struggles have been betrayed and diminished. This insightful book offers a clarity that is desperately needed in these times\" -- Joy James, editor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/beyond-cop-cities-dismantling-state-and-corporate-funded-armies-and-prisons\" title=\"Beyond Cop Cities\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Cop Cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/confronting-counterinsurgency-cop-cities-and-democracys-terrors\" title=\"Confronting Counterinsurgency\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfronting Counterinsurgency\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/engage-indigenous-black-and-afro-indigenous-futures-1\" title=\"Engage\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eENGAGE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This provocative, stimulating and engaging book is indispensable for those seeking to understand the malignancy and toxicity of U.S. imperialism\" -- Gerald Horne, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/the-counter-revolution-of-1836-texas-slavery-jim-crow-and-the-roots-of-u-s-fascism\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Briond\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, and the co-founder and co-host of the podcast \u003ci\u003eMillennials Are Killing Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a PhD student based between New York, Charlotte, and Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54503577944347,"sku":"Taming the Revolution","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/71IMsiNSdAL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793730460","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/taming-the-revolution-white-power-and-the-fear-of-black-freedom-1","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}