New Social Movements in the African Diaspora Challenging Global Apartheid

by Mullings, Leith

• ISBN13: 9780230621398
• ISBN10: 0230621392
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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 Marable, Premilla Nadasen, George Priestley, Mark Sawyer, and Julia Sudbury.

Author Biography

Leith Mullings is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is also the President-Elect of the American Anthropological Association.

 

Series Editor 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 American Studies,t Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introduction--Leith Mullings * Latin America * Contesting Politics as Usual--Tianna S. Paschel and Mark Q. Sawyer * Multiethnic Nations and Cultural Citizenship--Jhon Herlyn Antón Sánchez * The Black Movement in Panamá--George Priestley and Alberto Barrow * The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide--João H. Costa Vargas * Transnational Black Feminism in the Twenty-first Century--Kia Lilly Caldwell * The Emergence and Evolving Character of Contemporary Afro-Bolivian Mobilization--Sara Busdiecker * Afro-descendant Struggles for Collective Rights in Latin America--Juliet Hooker * Indian Ocean World * Indians of African Descent--Beheroze Shroff * Taking on Empires--David Vine * Europe, Canada and the U.S * Fightback--Clarence Lusane * Rethinking Global Justice--Julia Sudbury * Reconstituting Political Genealogies--Ana Aparicio * New Forms--Raymond Codrington * Eco-Apartheid and Global Greenwaves--Melissa Checker * Sista’ Friends and Other Allies--Premilla Nadasen * Barack Obama and the Contours of African American Social Protest Movements--Manning Marable * Back to Africa * New Social Movements in Nubian Identity Among Nubians in Egypt, Sudan, and the United States--Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Richard A. Lobban * Bios