Black Power and Palestine : Transnational Countries of Color / Michael R. Fischbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischbach, Michael R., Author.

Series:

Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.

Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

African American civil rights workers--Attitudes.

African American civil rights workers.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Foreign public opinion, American.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Public opinion--United States--History--20th century.

Public opinion.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1967-1973--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Stanford University Press, 2023.

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Michael R. Fischbach is Professor of History at Randolph-Macon College. The author of four previous books, he was awarded grants by The MacArthur Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace. He has presented at numerous academic and diplomatic settings in sixteen countries on four continents.

Summary:

The 1967 Arab–Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers. Black Power activists saw Palestinians as a kindred people of color, waging the same struggle for freedom and justice as themselves. Soon concerns over the Arab–Israeli conflict spread across mainstream black politics and into the heart of the civil rights movement itself. Black Power and Palestine uncovers why so many African Americans—notably Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali, among others—came to support the Palestinians or felt the need to respond to those who did. Americans first heard pro-Palestinian sentiments in public through the black freedom struggle of the 1960s and 1970s. Michael R. Fischbach uncovers this hidden history of the Arab–Israeli conflict's role in African American activism and the ways that distant struggle shaped the domestic fight for racial equality. Black Power's transnational connections between African Americans and Palestinians deeply affected U.S. black politics, animating black visions of identity well into the late 1970s. Black Power and Palestine allows those black voices to be heard again today. In chronicling this story, Fischbach reveals much about how American peoples of color create political strategies, a sense of self, and a place within U.S. and global communities. The shadow cast by events of the 1960s and 1970s continues to affect the United States in deep, structural ways. This is the first book to explore how conflict in the Middle East shaped the American civil rights movement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACRONYMS

PROLOGUE

Chapter 1. BLACK INTERNATIONALISM

Chapter 2. THE FIRE THIS TIME

Chapter 3. REFORMERS, NOT REVOLUTIONARIES

Chapter 4. BALANCED AND GUARDED

Chapter 5. THE POWER OF WORDS

Chapter 6. STRUGGLE AND REVOLUTION

Chapter 7. MIDDLE EAST SYMBIOSIS

Chapter 8. RED, WHITE, AND BLACK

Chapter 9. A SEAT AT THE TABLE

Chapter 10. LOOKING OVER JORDAN

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.

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ISBN:

9781503607392

1503607399

OCLC:

1178768875