From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution

by Michael O. West, William G. Martin, Fanon Che Wilkins

Overview

From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807859728
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press, The
Publication date:	10/28/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Michael O. West is professor of sociology and Africana studies at Binghamton University.

William G. Martin is professor of sociology at Binghamton University.

Fanon Che Wilkins is associate professor of African American history and culture in the Graduate School of American Studies at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction Contours of the Black International From Toussaint to Tupac Michael O. West William G. Martin 1

Part 1 The American Revolution and the Creation of a Global African World Sylvia Frey 47

Haiti, I'm Sorry The Haitian Revolution and the Forging of the Black International Michael O. West William G. Martin 72

Part 2 Nothing Matters but Color Transnational Circuits, the Interwar Caribbean, and the Black International Lara Putnam 107

Providential Design American Negroes and Garveyism in South Africa Robert Vinson 130

The Negro Question The Communist International and Black Liberation in the Interwar Years Hakim Adi 155

Part 3 Waiting for the Black Gandhi Satyagraha and Black Internationalism Vijay Prashad 179

The Rise and Fall of Caribbean Black Power Brian Meeks 197

Merely One Link in the Worldwide Revolution Internationalism, State Repression, and the Black Panther Party, 1966-1972 Robyn Spencer 215

Hip Hop's Diasporic Landscapes of Blackness Marc D. Perry 232

Bibliography 259

About the Authors 299

Index 303

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From the Publisher

This masterful collection proposes an alternative paradigm for our interpretation of modern 'world history,' reconsidering the histories of South Africa, West Africa, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. It is a bold intervention whose intellectual, chronological, cultural, social, and geographical sweep is without rival.—Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics

Editorial Reviews

A model in which the struggles of black people worldwide from the Haitian Revolution to contemporary rap fundamentally inform and shape historical questions and understandings. . . . Recommended.—Choice

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