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This book reveals the imperfectly documented and heretofore unrecognized bonds that led peoples of African descent around the world to articulate new global conceptions of Blackness as a way to mount local challenges to racism, segregation, colonialism, economic exploitation, generational authority, and cultural chauvinism.
List of contents
Chapter 1Introduction
Timothy H. ParsonsChapter 2'We Are Not White. We Don't Want to Be White': Washington University's Black Radical Awakening
Olivia KerrChapter 3The Great Memory: How St. Clair County Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.
Jeffrey EdisonChapter 4Melvin Van Peebles, James Brown, Frank Yerby and Some Observations about the Black 1968
Gerald EarlyChapter 5Black 1968 and Palestine: Transnationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Revolutionary Culture
Michael R. FischbackChapter 6 'We Shall Overcome' and Ireland: The Transatlantic Politics of a Protest Song
Daniel Geary and Jack SheehanChapter 7Black Power in Britain: How the 1968 Race Relations Act Disrupted a Movement
Melanie R. HolmesChapter 8How the Banning of Walter Rodney Led to the Birth of Bogle L'Ouverture Publications
Kadija SesayChapter 9The Ideological Melting Pot of the Senegalese Rebels in 1968: Between Marxism, Fanonism and Pan-Africanism
Pascal BianchiniChapter 10May 1968 and the Question of Africanization of the Educational System in Senegal
El Hadji Samba A. DialloChapter 11Black Enclaves after Reconstruction: Cultivating Collective Identity in Preparation for the Revolution of 1968
Geraldine (Geri) L. Palmer
About the author
Timothy H. Parsons is a social historian holding joint appoints in the departments of History and African and African American Studies at Washington University.
Summary
This book reveals the imperfectly documented and heretofore unrecognized bonds that led peoples of African descent around the world to articulate new global conceptions of Blackness as a way to mount local challenges to racism, segregation, colonialism, economic exploitation, generational authority, and cultural chauvinism.
