Black Power beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement

by N. Slate (Editor)

Overview

This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from African liberation movements to anti-caste agitation in India to indigenous protests in New Zealand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137285058
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Series:	Contemporary Black History
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Nico Slate is an Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He is the author of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India (2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction. The Borders of Black Power; Nico Slate PART I: THE ROOTS OF BLACK POWER 1. Rethinking Radicalism: African Americans and the Liberation Struggles in Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea, 1945-1949; Carol Anderson 2. The Activism of George McCray: Confluence and Conflict of Pan-Africanism and Transnational Labor Solidarity; Yevette Richards 3. When the Panther Travels: Race and the Southern Diaspora in the History of the BPP, 1964 – 1972; Donna Murch PART II: THE PANTHERS ABROAD 4. The Black Panthers of Israel and the Politics of the Radical Analogy; Oz Frankel 5. The Polynesian Panthers and The Black Power: Surviving Racism and Colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand; Robbie Shilliam 6. The Dalit Panthers: Race, Caste, and Black Power in India; Nico Slate PART III: THE POWER IN BLACK POWER 7. 'They've lynched our savior, Lumumba in the old fashion Southern Style': The Conscious Internationalism of American Black Nationalism; Yohuru Williams 8. From Black Power to a Revolution of Values: Grace Lee Boggs and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Scott Kurashige 9. Music is a World: Stevie Wonder and the Sound of Black Power; Kevin Gaines

Editorial Reviews

'This path-breaking collection offers new insights into the global resonances of Black Power in such unexpected locales as New Zealand, Israel, and India, while also situating the US Black Power movement and its antecedents within the political and cultural traditions, and collective memory, of the African diaspora. Scholars and lay readers alike will find this a rewarding collection that dramatically transforms their understandings of the movement.' - Penny Von Eschen, professor of History, University of Michigan, USA

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