Bibliograph

The anticolonial front, the African American freedom struggle and global decolonisation, 1945-1960, John Munro

Type

Label

The anticolonial front, the African American freedom struggle and global decolonisation, 1945-1960, John Munro

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The anticolonial front

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1006810290

Responsibility statement

John Munro

Series statement

Critical perspectives on empireCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

the African American freedom struggle and global decolonisation, 1945-1960

Summary

This is 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. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments.--, Provided by publisher

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