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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824181103321

Titolo

From Toussaint to Tupac : the Black international since the age of revolution / / edited by Michael O. West, William G. Martin, and Fanon Che Wilkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4696-0555-4

0-8078-9872-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WestMichael O (Michael Oliver)

MartinWilliam G. <1952->

WilkinsFanon Che

Disciplina

320.54/6

Soggetti

African diaspora

Black people - Politics and government

Internationalism - History

Black people - Intellectual life

Black power - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contours of the black international; from Toussaint to Tupac / Michael O. West and William G. Martin -- The American Revolution and the creation of a global African world / Sylvia Frey -- Haiti, I'm sorry; The Haitian Revolution and the forging of the black international / Michael O. West and William G. Martin -- Nothing matters but color; transnational circuits, the interwar Caribbean, and the black international / Lara Putman -- Providential design; American Negroes and Garveyism in South Africa / Robert Vinson -- The Negro question; the communist international and black liberation in the interwar years / Hakim Adi -- Waiting for the Black Gandhi; Satyagrahah and black internationalism / Vijay Prashad -- The rise and fall of Caribbean black power / Brian Meeks -- Merely one link in the worldwide revolution; internationalism, state repression, and the Black Panther party, 1966-1972 / Robyn Spencer -- Hip hop's diasporic landscapes of blackness / Marc D. Perry.



Sommario/riassunto

Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness. At its core, black internationalism is a struggle against oppression, whether manifested in slavery, colonialism, or racism. The ten essays in this volume offer a comprehensive overview of the global movements that define black internationalism, from its origins in the colonial period to the present.From Toussaint to Tupac focuses on three moments in global black history: the American and