“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
The Feel Trio by Fred Moten (CUTT PRESS at Hopscotch reading room, 2025)
Hopscotch’s copy of ‘The Feel Trio’ by Fred Moten (Letter Machine Editions, 2014) was heavily notated by the previous owner. Drawings, personal thoughts and feelings, diagrams, and other scribbles fill the margins of our copy which we have reprinted as is in the spirit of Moten’s eclectic mixture of resources in the book: “contemporary as well as historical, steeped in jazz and black history, representing a cultural lexicon of the utmost accomplished chops filled with slang, humor, and critical acumen with events and cultural collateral” in the shared memory of the page.