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

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (354 pages) Series Critical Perspectives on Empire Critical perspectives on empire. Contents Popular front, anticolonial front -- Present at the continuation : Manchester and the postwar resumption of anticolonial politics -- The youth and the unions -- Three cold-war texts and a critique of imperialism : the anticolonial front in print -- Resilient resistance : the uneven impact of anticommunism -- Back to the international arena : Bandung and Paris -- Independence : the first stage of neocolonialism -- Toward the sixties -- Epilogue : the tragedy of imperial neoliberalism 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 Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Sep 2017) Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century Anti-imperialist movements -- History -- 20th century National liberation movements -- History -- 20th century Decolonization -- History -- 20th century Globalization -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY -- North America. National liberation movements Decolonization Anti-imperialist movements African Americans -- Politics and government African Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights movements Globalization United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316946350 1316946355 9781316992883 1316992888 1316638413 9781316638415

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