New Social Movements in the African Diaspora Challenging Global Apartheid [Hardcover]

In the last few decades the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. This account of these social movements include action in Latin America, the Indian Ocean World, Europe, Canada and the United States.Introduction; L.Mullings Latin America Contesting Politics as Usual; T.S.Paschel & M.Q.Sawyer Multiethnic Nations and Cultural Citizenship; J.H.A.S?nchez The Black Movement in Panam?; G.Priestley & A.Barrow The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide; J.H.Costa Vargas Transnational Black Feminism in the Twenty-first Century; K.L.Caldwell The Emergence and Evolving Character of Contemporary Afro-Bolivian Mobilization; S.Busdiecker Afro-descendant Struggles for Collective Rights in Latin America; J.Hooker Indian Ocean World Indians of African Descent; B.Shroff Taking on Empires; D.Vine Europe, Canada and the U.S Fightback; C.Lusane Rethinking Global Justice; J.Sudbury Reconstituting Political Genealogies; A.Aparicio New Forms; R.Codrington Eco-Apartheid and Global Greenwaves; M.Checker Sista' Friends and Other Allies; P.Nadasen Barack Obama and the Contours of African American Social Protest Movements; M.Marable Back to Africa New Social Movements in Nubian Identity Among Nubians in Egypt, Sudan, and the United States; C.Fluehr-Lobban & R.A.Lobban Bios

Black struggles against racial despotism and super-exploitation remain at the core of contemporary democratic movements all around the world. 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. 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. Highly recommended for course adoption in ethnic studies, lƒ+