Anticolonial Front - The African American Freedom Struggle Global Decolonisation, 1945

This book connects the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Popular front, anticolonial front and United States empire from World War to Cold War; 2. Present at the continuation: Manchester and the postwar resumption of anticolonial politics; 3. The youth and the unions; 4. Three Cold War texts and a critique of imperialism: the anticolonial front in print; 5. Resilient resistance: the uneven impact of anticomminism; 6. Back to the international arena: Bandung and Paris; 7. Independence: the first stage of neocolonialism; 8. Toward the sixties; Epilogue: the tragedy of imperial neoliberalism.

About the author

John Munro completed his Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His articles have appeared in Labour/Le Travail, the Globality Studies Journal, Left History, the Canadian Review of American Studies, Third World Quarterly, History Workshop Journal, Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence, edited by Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake, and The Material of World History, edited by Tina Chen and David Churchill.

Summary

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. This book recasts the postwar history of the United States in the light of global decolonisation and racial capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: John Munro, John (Saint Mary's University Munro, John (Saint Mary''s University Munro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107188051
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18805-1
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir; Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, c 1940 to c 1949, Human rights, civil rights, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Black & Asian Studies, C 1945 To C 1960, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / African American & Black