![]() ![]() Hintzen, Professor of African American Studies and Director of the Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley and author of West Indian in the West The volume manages brilliantly to reconstitute and reconceptualize black social movements as forms of political empowerment of a global culture in which blackness is inscribed, notwithstanding their local and national manifestations." - Percy C. Forms of global circulation produce both reaffirmations of racial violence and possibilities for resistance. Many of the contributions deal directly with responses to racism s relationship to the apparatus and technologies of the state and to the inscription of race in international relations. The volume breaks out of the confines of the "Black Atlantic" by dealing comprehensively with populations silenced, dismissed, and denied in the hybridized discourses of racial democracy in mestizo Latin-America, in the eviscerations of India s nationalism, and through black expulsions in the Indian ocean. They deal, comprehensively, with the continuing global quest by movements organized by African descended people for recognition, representation, justice, and rights. All the contributions are rooted firmly in historical, national, and local contexts and their entanglement with global processes. In the final analysis, social movements in the African Diaspora are demonstrated to be the material manifestations of a cultural politics and critical practice (such as hip hop for example) employing, ironically, new possibilities for resistance offered up by neo-liberalism itself. It details responses, organized in new forms of social mobilization by African descended people, to intensified forms of racial material, institutional, and symbolic violence embedded in global capitalism (including, for example, through the new realities of environmental racism). "This volume is one of the most comprehensive and timely engagements with the current dilemma posed by neo-liberal globalization for the African Diaspora. Bringing together in one volume leading scholars who are pursuing cutting edge scholarship, this book is must reading, not only for those concerned with matters relating to Africans and Africa but, as well, to all those concerned with justice and equality." - Gerald Horne, author of Mau Mau in Harlem?The U.S. Du Bois first began exploring this profoundly essential realm. With the publication of this exceedingly important and endlessly fascinating book, we now have the most informative and influential work in African Diaspora Studies that has been published since W.E.B. ![]() Yet, few have taken the time to scrutinize carefully this important phenomenon. "Much is made nowadays about the importance of Diaspora Studies in general and African Diaspora Studies in particular. Highly recommended for course adoption in ethnic studies, sociology, American Studies, and global studies!" - Howard Winant, Center for New Racial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Leith Mullings show that 21st-century Black challenges to neoliberalism and structural racism not only continue, but that they build upon the legacies of the pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist, civil rights, and anti-apartheid movements of past generations. ![]() New Social Movements in the African Diaspora reveals the breadth and depth of global Black mobilization, shedding light on many anti-racist movements still largely unknown in the US. "Black struggles against racial despotism and super-exploitation remain at the core of contemporary democratic movements all around the world.
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