The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945-1960

ISBN-13: 9781316638415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 345 str.

John Munro

Opis

This book connects the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe.

Recenzje

'John Munro provides a detailed study of how decolonization remained a persistent goal within the American left in spite of pressures from totalitarianism and imperialist orthodoxy in the 1930s to an emergent neoliberalism in the present day.' Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Popular front, anticolonial front and United States empire from World War to Cold War; 2. Present at the continuation: Manchester and the postwar resumption of anticolonial politics; 3. The youth and the unions; 4. Three Cold War texts and a critique of imperialism: the anticolonial front in print; 5. Resilient resistance: the uneven impact of anticomminism; 6. Back to the international arena: Bandung and Paris; 7. Independence: the first stage of neocolonialism; 8. Toward the sixties; Epilogue: the tragedy of imperial neoliberalism.