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In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how
early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international
movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class
exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on two
organizations, the Harlem-based African Blood Brotherhood, whose
members became the first black Communists in the United States, and
the International African Service Bureau, the major black
anticolonial group in 1930s London, In the Cause of Freedom
examines the ideas, initiatives, and networks of interwar black
radicals, as well as how they communicated across continents.
Through a detailed analysis of black radical periodicals and
extensive research in U.S., English, Dutch, and Soviet archives,
Makalani explores how black radicals thought about race; understood
the ties between African diasporic, Asian, and international
workers' struggles; theorized the connections between colonialism
and racial oppression; and confronted the limitations of
international leftist organizations. Considering black radicals of
Harlem and London together for the first time, In the Cause of
Freedom reorients the story of blacks and Communism from questions
of autonomy and the Kremlin's reach to show the emergence of
radical black internationalism separate from, and independent of,
the white Left.
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Race Struggles (Paperback)
Theodore Koditschek, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Helen A Neville; Contributions by Pedro Caban, David Crockett, …
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R806
Discovery Miles 8 060
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This collection is a contribution to the ongoing examination of
race and its relation to class and gender. The essays in the volume
start with the premise that although race, like class and gender,
is socially constructed, all three categories have been shaped
profoundly by their context in a capitalist society. Race, in other
words, is a historical category that develops not only in
dialectical relation to class and gender but also in relation to
the material conditions in which all three are forged. These
assumptions underlie the organization of the volume, which is
divided into three parts: "Racial Structures," which explores the
problem of how race has historically been structured in modern
capitalist societies; "Racial Ideology and Identity," which tackles
diverse but interrelated questions regarding the representation of
race and racism in dominant ideologies and discourses; and
"Struggle," which builds on the insight that resistance to
structures and ideologies of racial oppression is always situated
in a particular time and place. In addition to discussing and
analyzing various dimensions of the African American experience,
contributors also consider the ways in which race plays itself out
in the experience of Asian Americans and in the very different
geopolitical environments of the British Empire and postcolonial
Africa. Contributors are Pedro Cabán, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua,
David Crockett, Theodore Koditschek, Scott Kurashige, Clarence
Lang, Minkah Makalani, Helen A. Neville, Tola Olu Pearce, David
Roediger, Monica M. White, and Jeffrey Williams.
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