The Anticolonial Front
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The Anticolonial Front

The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945–1960

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The Anticolonial Front

The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945–1960

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Popular Front, Anticolonial Front
  12. 2 Present at the Continuation: Manchester and the Postwar Resumption of Anticolonial Politics
  13. 3 The Youth and the Unions
  14. 4 Three Cold-War Texts and a Critique of Imperialism: The Anticolonial Front in Print
  15. 5 Resilient Resistance: The Uneven Impact of Anticommunism
  16. 6 Back to the International Arena: Bandung and Paris
  17. 7 Independence: The First Stage of Neocolonialism
  18. 8 Toward the Sixties
  19. Epilogue: The Tragedy of Imperial Neoliberalism
  20. Index