We Are Internationalists

Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-41771-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

"Now more than ever, young Americans need to know that internationalism and solidarity with anticolonial struggles in the Global South have a deep history in the American Left, especially the Black Left."—Angela Y. DavisIn the shadow of the Vietnam War, a group of Chicago activists redefined Black freedom as a global struggle against empire. In this gripping account, Martha Biondi traces their efforts to build an internationalist movement dedicated to liberation everywhere, with a particular focus on ending colonialism and apartheid in Africa.

Among their leaders was Prexy Nesbitt. Steeped from an early age in stories of Garveyism and labor militancy, Nesbitt was powerfully influenced by his encounters with the exiled African radicals he met in Dar es Salaam, London, and across the United States. Operating domestically and abroad, Nesbitt's cohort worked closely with opponents of Portuguese and white minority rule in Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa. Rather than promoting a US conception of Black self-determination, they took ideas from African anticolonial leaders and injected them into US foreign policy debates.

The biography of a man but even more so of a movement, We Are Internationalists reveals the underappreciated influence of a transformative Black solidarity project.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biondi, Martha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Abbreviations
Map 1. The Continent of Africa
Map 2. Southern Africa

Introduction
1. From the West Side to Dar es Salaam: The Roots of Prexy Nesbitt's Internationalism
2. The Tilt Toward Internationalism: Race and Ideology in the 1970s
3. The Global and Local Dimensions of the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
4. Our Sophisticated Weapon: The Forgotten Story of Internationalist Mozambique
5. Internationalist Chicago and the End of Apartheid
6. A Luta Continua: Reflections on Solidarity in a Neoliberal Age

Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martha Biondi is Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Black Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of The Black Revolution on Campus and To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City.