New Social Movements in the African Diaspora Challenging Global Apartheid

by Mullings, Leith

• ISBN13: 9780230621497
• ISBN10: 023062149X
• Format: Paperback
• 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: Refraining Global Justice: New Social Movements in the African Diaspora	p. 1
Latin America	p. 11
Contesting Politics as Usual: Black Social Movements, Globalization, and Race Policy in Latin America	p. 13
Multiethnic Nations and Cultural Citizenship: Proposals from the Afro-Descendant Movement in Ecuador	p. 33
The Black Movement in Panama: A Historical and Political Interpretation, 1994-2004	p. 49
The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide: Blueprints from the African Diaspora in the Americas	p. 79
Transnational Black Feminism in the Twenty-first Century: Perspectives from Brazil	p. 105
The Emergence and Evolving Character of Contemporary Afro-Bolivian Mobilization: From the Performative to the Political	p. 121
Afro-descendant Struggles for Collective Rights in Latin America	p. 139
The Indian Ocean World	p. 155
Indians of African Descent: History and Contemporary Experience	p. 157
Taking on Empires: Reparations, the Right of Return, and the People of Diego Garcia	p. 171
Europe, Canada, and the United States
Fightback: The Movement Against Racial Profiling in Europe
Rethinking Global Justice: Black Women Resist the Transnational Prison-Industrial Complex	p. 213
Reconstituting Political Genealogies: Reflections on Youth, Racial Justice, and the Uses of History	p. 233
New Forms: The Political Potential of Hip-Hop	p. 247
Eco-apartheid and Global Greenwaves: African Diasporic Environmental Justice Movements	p. 263
Sista' Friends and Other Allies: Domestic Workers United and Coalition Politics	p. 285
Barack Obama and the Contours of African American Social Protest Movements	p. 299
Back to Africa	p. 311
New Social Movements in Nubian Identity among Nubians in Egypt, Sudan, and the United States	p. 313
List of Contributors	p. 325
Index	p. 331
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