The Freedom Riders Across Borders: Contentious Mobilities

ISBN-13: 9781032132136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Barbara Lüthi

Opis

This book provides the first comprehensive transnational historical analysis of the Freedom Rides. It explores the transnational history of these social movements and the struggles for the right to mobility and other civil rights in the United States of America, Australia, and Palestine between 1961 and 2011.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. "You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow": The Freedom Riders of 1961 and the Dilemma of Mobility, 2. Contentious Politics in Australia, 3. Freedom Ride in the Palestinian West Banks, 4. Freedom of Movement and Its Limits

O autorze

Barbara Lüthi is Reader of History at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research explores 19^th and 20^th century European and North American history with a focus on migration history and mobility studies, global history, postcolonial studies, social movement history, and the history of violence. She has previously worked as a visiting scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, the Humanities Institute at the University of California, Davis, USA, and as a Fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of Chicago, USA.