The Anticolonial Front - The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945–1960

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Munro
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2020
• EAN: 9781316638415
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63841-5
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 150 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Illustrations: 18 b/w illus., Raster,schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 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