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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790688203321

Titolo

Black power beyond borders : the global dimensions of the Black power movement / / edited by Nico Slate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-137-28506-0

1-137-29506-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Black History

Disciplina

322.420973

Soggetti

Black power - History

Black nationalism - History

Pan-Africanism - History

Social history

History, Modern

Civilization—History

US History

History of the Americas

World History, Global and Transnational History

Social History

Modern History

Cultural History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: The Borders of Black Power; Part I The Roots of Black Power; 1 Rethinking Radicalism: African Americans and the Liberation Struggles in Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea, 1945-1949; 2 The Activism of George McCray: Confluence and Conflict of Pan-Africanism and Transnational Labor Solidarity; 3 When the Panther Travels: Raceand the Southern Diaspora in the History of the BPP, 1964-1972; Part II The Panthers Abroad; 4 The Black Panthers of Israel and the Politics of the



Radical Analogy

5 The Polynesian Panthers and the Black Power Gang: Surviving Racism and Colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand*6 The Dalit Panthers: Race, Caste, and Black Power in India; 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; 8 From Black Power to a Revolution of Values: Grace Lee Boggs and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.; 9 Music Is a World: Stevie Wonder and the Sound of Black Power; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.