We Are Internationalists - Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation

"Through Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt's life of organizing at the grassroots and crisscrossing the globe we learn about long-forgotten efforts spanning decades to support the many liberation and peace struggles in southern Africa. Now more than ever, young Americans need to know that internationalism and solidarity with anticolonial struggles in the Global South have a deep history in the American Left, especially the Black Left."--Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

"At this moment, when the lives of Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, Claudette Colvin, and others are gaining fresh attention and new appreciation, Prexy Nesbitt's story is both relevant and necessary. A huge audience is eager for a deeper awareness of where we've come from, where we are today, and where we might go."--Bill Ayers, author of When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer

"The most consequential social movement to develop in the United States after the civil rights era of the 1960s was the movement to end apartheid in South Africa. Despite its significance, we know very little about it. And we know next to nothing about the amazing efforts of Black Americans like Prexy Nesbitt to address the colossal injustices facing the whole region of southern Africa. We Are Internationalists fills a long-standing void in our understanding of the vast and sometimes vacuous post-civil rights era."--Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Product details

• Authors: Martha Biondi, Biondi Martha
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.11.2025
• EAN: 9780520417717
• ISBN: 978-0-520-41771-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Human Rights, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political activism, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement, Social discrimination and social justice, Relating to African American / Black American people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black