This look at the nature of black protest in South Africa and the US
is a profound and necessary contribution to the field of black
studies. History professor Fredrickson (Stanford; White Supremacy,
1981, etc.) puts forth the general thesis that, in both countries,
black leaders were motivated not by a desire to switch places with
their oppressors but by a wish to create a truly equal, race-blind
polity that hewed to the best of Western democratic philosophy.
Through an analysis that ranges from the early 19th century to
today, he demonstrates that violent rebellion had no real presence
in either society until the 1960s. Frederick Douglass, New York
Globe editor T. Thomas Fortune, and Martin Luther King in the US,
and early Cape political leader A.K. Soga and Nelson Mandela in
South Africa, among others, all proposed working within the system
to make it better for all people. Fredrickson demonstrates how
ideologies as diverse as nationalism, communism, Christianity,
capitalism, pan-Africanism, and populism were combined and adapted
by both movements toward this end. He also explains how thoroughly
aware the black leaders in the two societies were of one another,
viewing their own struggles as part of a larger fight for black
humanity everywhere. According to the author, Marcus Garvey's
pan-Africanist movement, for example, had a great impact on black
political thought in South Africa, with one acolyte founding the
ANC's branch in the Western Cape. Yet Garvey's rhetoric of
self-determination was, at least in the case of former
president-general of the ANC Z.R. Mahabane, wed to a belief that
the future of South Africa must include "the full and free
cooperation of all white and black races of the land." Showing the
stunning parallels in the politics of black peoples on both sides
of the Atlantic, this offers definitive proof of the robust
continuity of black freedom struggles. (Kirkus Reviews)
Black Liberation focuses on the efforts of African Americans and South African blacks to combat the domination of white people in American and South African society. Starting in the 1860s, it follows the emancipation of slaves after the Civil War, and ends with the conclusion of apartheid in South Africa.
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