Title Geographies of liberation : the making of an Afro-Arab political imaginary / Alex Lubin

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Geographies of Liberation; 1 Overlapping Diasporas; 2 From Subject to Citizen: Dusé Mohamed Ali and the Afro-Orient; 3 Black Marxism and Binationalism; 4 The Black Panthers and the PLO: The Politics of Intercommunalism; 5 Neoliberalism, Security, and the Afro-Arab International; Conclusion: Liberation at the Twilight of the American Era; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z Summary "In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the book demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks imagined their freedom and, conversely, the ways in which various Middle Eastern groups have understood and used the African American freedom struggle to shape their own political movements. Lubin extends the framework of the black freedom struggle beyond the familiar geographies of the Atlantic world and sheds new light on the linked political, social, and intellectual imaginings of African Americans, Palestinians, Arabs, and Israeli Jews. This history of intellectual exchange, Lubin argues, has forged political connections that extend beyond national and racial boundaries."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject African Americans -- Politics and government -- Philosophy African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century Political participation -- United States Political rights -- United States Political participation -- Middle East Political rights -- Middle East SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. African Americans -- Politics and government Political participation Political rights Politics and government SUBJECT Middle East -- Politics and government -- Philosophy Middle East -- Politics and government -- 20th century Subject Middle East United States Form Electronic book ISBN 1469615312 9781469615318 9781469612898 1469612895

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