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UNINA9910789141503321 |
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Weiss Holger |
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Framing a radical African Atlantic : African American agency, West African intellectuals, and the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers / / Holger Weiss |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (768 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Global Social History, , 1874-6705 ; ; Volume 14 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pan-Africanism - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- Prologue -- 1. The Communist International and the ‘Negro Question’ -- 2. A Communist Agitator in West Africa? -- 3. The Sixth Comintern Congress and the Negro Question -- 4. Moscow 1929–1930: The Negro Bureau, the (Provisional) -- 5. Towards a Global Agenda: The ITUCNW and the World Negro Workers Conference -- 6. From Hamburg to Moscow and via Berlin to Hamburg -- 7. The ITUCNW in the RILU- and CI-apparatus, 1930–1933 -- 8. The Radical African Atlantic, 1930–1933: Writing Class, Thinking Race -- 9. Mission Impossible? The Collapse and Rebirth of the Radical Atlantic Network -- 10. Our Comrades in West Africa -- 11. Moscow’s Final Call—and Yet Another New Start? -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Framing a Radical African Atlantic Holger Weiss presents a critical outline and analysis of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) and the attempts by the Communist International (Comintern) to establish an anticolonial political platform in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period. It is the first presentation about the organization and its activities, investigating the background and objectives, the establishment and expansion of a radical African (black) Atlantic network between 1930 |
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