Anticolonial Front

Anticolonial Front

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

Munro, John (Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia)

Cambridge University Press

09/2017

354

Dura

Inglês

9781107188051

15 a 20 dias

A transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. This book recasts the postwar history of the United States in the light of global decolonisation and racial capitalism.
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.