The anticolonial front : the African American freedom struggle and global decolonisation, 1945-1960

John Munro
Bok · Engelsk · 2020

Originaltittel	[ The anticolonial front .] 2020
Omfang	xii, 333 sider : illustrasjoner, portretter
Utgave	Paperback edition
Opplysninger	Først utgitt: 2017. - 1. Popular front, anticolonial front -- the anticolonial manifest -- the antifascist interregnum -- a culture of (some) unity -- popular front, anticolonial front -- 2. Present at the continuation: Manchester and the postwar resumption of anticolonial politics -- global colonialism, postbellum -- roads to Manchester -- resolution and revolution -- roads from Manchester -- 3. The youth and the unions -- the march of southern youth -- beholding the land in the southern United States and Global South -- 'a school for ideological and political struggle' -- legacies of the Youth Legislature -- 4. Three Cold War texts and a critique of imperialism: the anticolonial front in print -- dissenting texts, colonial and Cold War context -- Marxist anticolonialism after World War II: promises and predicaments -- theory and praxis at Political Affairs -- gender and its intersections -- The United States as imperial entity -- Freedom struggles in the 1950s -- Freedom against empire -- leading lights of Fifties anticolonialism -- culture and politis on the page --anticolonialism under liberal banners -- leftist writing for a liberal audience -- attention to Africa -- liberalism's limitations -- 5. Resilient resistance: the uneven impact of anticommunism -- 'we knew who we were' -- intimidation, marginalization, deportation -- the ordeals of Robeson and Du Bois -- not just communists -- 6. Back to the international arena: Bandung and Paris -- the Bandung spring -- Bandung's many meanings -- liberal views on the conference -- Bandung from the left -- French connection -- the anticolonial front in Existentialism's capital -- cultural conference, political content - the CIA lends a hand --7. Independence: the first stage of neocolonialism -- revolting against the imperial system -- the Padmores and Du Boises come to Ghana -- liberation beyond the nation -- the neocolonial reality sets in --8. Toward the sixties -- The United States and beyond -- back to Britain --Epilogue: the tragedy of imperial neoliberalism.. - "This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments."
Emner	African Americans - Civil rights - History Civil rights movements - History - United States Globalization - History afrikansk-amerikanere borgerrettigheter borgerrettsbevegelsen aktivisme avkolonisering imperialisme globalisering Vis mer... 1900-tallet 1940-tallet 1950-tallet 1960-tallet USA historie
Dewey	323.1196073
ISBN	9781316638415 (pbk.) : : £24.99