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In the cause of freedom : radical Black internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939
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In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploit...
In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on two organizations, the Harlem-based African Blood Brotherhood, whose members became the first black Communists in the United States, and the International African Service Bureau, the major black anticolonial group in 1930's London, In the Cause of Freedom examines the ideas, initiatives, and networks of interwar black radicals, as well as
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- Creator
- Minkah Makalani
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011
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- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780807869161, 9781469602516, 9780807835043, 0807869163, 0807835048, 1469617528, 1469602512
- OCLC
- ocn767952993, ocn711043300
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Straight socialism or negro-ology? Diaspora, Harlem, and the institutions of Black radicalism -- Liberating Negroes everywhere: Cyril Briggs, the African Blood Brotherhood, and radical pan-africanism -- With all forces menacing empire: Black and Asian radicals internationalize the Third International -- An outcast here as outside: nationality, class, and building racial unity -- An incessant struggle against White supremacy: anticolonial struggles and Black international connections -- The rise of a Black international: George Padmore and the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers -- An international African opinion: diasporic London and Black radical intellectual production -- Epilogue: a vitality and validity of its own
Subjects
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Black people -- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Racism -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Relations -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Relations -- United States.
- African Blood Brotherhood.
- International African Service Bureau.