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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810101803321

Autore

Bush Roderick D

Titolo

The end of white world supremacy : black internationalism and the problem of the color line / / Roderick D. Bush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-27220-9

9786612272202

1-59213-574-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Politics and government

Black nationalism - United States - History

Internationalism

United States Race relations

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "The handwriting on the wall" -- The peculiar internationalism of black nationalism -- The sociology of the color line : W.E.B. Du Bois and the end of white world supremacy -- The class-first, race-first debate : the contradictions of nationalism and internationalism and the stratification of the world-system -- Black feminism, intersectionality, and the critique of masculinist models of liberation -- The civil rights movement and the continuing struggle for the redemption of America -- Black power, the American dream, and the spirit of bandung : Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the age of world revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

The End of White World Supremacy explores a complex issue-integration of Blacks into White America-from multiple perspectives: within the United States, globally, and in the context of movements for social justice. Rod Bush locates himself within a tradition of African American activism that goes back at least to W.E.B. Du Bois. In so doing, he communicates between two literatures-world systems analysis and radical Black social movement history-and sustains the dialogue throughout the book. Bush explains how racial troubles in the



U.S. are symptomatic of the trouble