New social movements in the African diaspora : challenging global apartheid / edited by Leith Mullings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.

Mullings, Leith

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Critical Black studies series

The critical Black studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

African diaspora.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

vi, 334 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

In the last few decades, the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. Here is an account of these social movements in Latin America, the Indian Ocean World, Europe, Canada, and the United States, that includes analyses of land claims, environmental justice efforts, union organizing, electoral participation, and hip hop as social critique. Contributors Include Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Manning Marble, Premilla Nadasen, George Priestley Mark Sawyer, and Julia Sudbury.

Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science and Director of the Center for Contemporary Black History at the Institute for Research in African Studies, Columbia University.

Contents:

Contesting politics as usual : Black social movements, globalization, and race policy in Latin America / Tianna S. Paschel and Mark Q. Sawyer

Multiethnic nations and cultural citizenship : proposals from the Afro-descendant movement in Ecuador / Jhon Antón Sánchez

The Black movement in Panama : a historical and political interpretation, 1994-2004 / George Priestley and Alberto Barrow

The liberation imperative of Black genocide : blueprints from the African diaspora in the Americas / João H. Costa Vargas

Transnational Black feminism in the twenty-first century : perspectives from Brazil / Kia Lilly Caldwell

The emergence and evolving character of contemporary Afro-Bolivian mobilization : from the performative to the political / Sara Busdiecker

Afro-descendant struggles for collective rights in Latin America / Juliet Hooker

Indians of African descent : history and contemporary experience / Beheroze Shroff

Taking on empires : reparations, the right of return, and the people of Diego Garcia / David Vine

Fightback : the movement against racial profiling in Europe / Clarence Lusane

Rethinking global justice : Black women resist the transnational prison-industrial complex / Julia Sudbury

Reconstituting political genealogies : reflections on youth, racial justice, and the uses of history / Ana Aparicio

New forms : the political potential of hip-hop / Raymond Codrington

Eco-apartheid and global greenwaves : African diasporic environmental justice movements / Melissa Checker

Sista' friends and other allies : domestic workers united and coalition politics / Premilla Nadasen

Barack Obama and the contours of African American social protest movements / Manning Marable

New social movements in Nubian identity among Nubians in Egypt, Sudan, and the United States / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Richard A. Lobban.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780230621497

023062149X

9780230621398

0230621392

OCLC:

320621585