In the Cause of Freedom
Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5705124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brenda Gayle Plummer (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 958-958 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jas347 |
| OpenAlex | W2314833058 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
This original examination makes intriguing claims about the origins, motivations, and practice of interwar black radicalism. Minkah Makalani proposes that anticolonialism in Asia linked international communism with a black diaspora that challenged racism and imperialism. Communism became attractive to black radicals to the extent that it connected Pan-African and Asian revolt to the tasks of eliminating racial injustice and freeing colonies. Abandoned here is scholarship focused on whether black communists were dupes of Moscow or how independent they, and Communist parties generally, were of Kremlin control. Instead, Makalani has adopted a perspective increasingly at work on empire. The revolutionary class is not the Western proletariat, so at ease with racism and imperialism. It is instead the masses of colonized people. Rather than viewing the metropole as the center of transformation, inducing change in quiescent societies on the periphery, he sees colonial insurgencies and campaigns for justice among African Americans forming—and informing—struggle in the advanced countries
Colonialism · Communism · Diaspora · Empire · Internationalism (politics · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Racism · Scholarship · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society
From Nkrumah's Black Star to the African Diaspora
"Producing a "Black World
No Less a Pioneer
Maritime labour and subaltern geographies of internationalism
Rethinking Internationalizing Media Studies
Reframing African American Women's Grassroots Organizing
Incipient Fascism
‘Real red reds’
Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective
“Spirit in Opposition”
From Harlem to Africa
Harry O'Connell, maritime labour and the racialised politics of place
Britain’s Black Left feminists look East
Manos Unidas
Negotiating the Aims of African American Adult Education
Contra o Racismo. Mobilização para a mudança social na América Latina
Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013)
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |