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Call number : CIR 305.896009 N532 2009
CIR
305.896009
N532
2009

Book
Title proper : New social movements in the African diaspora : challenging global apartheid / Leith Mullings.
Creator : Leith Mullings (Editor)
Publication : New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Extent of text : vi, 334 pages
Dimension : 23 cm
Content type : Text
Media type : Unmediated
Carrier type : Volume
Series title : Critical black studies series
ISBN/Identifier : 978-0-230-62149-7 (pbk)
Access point-Topical : Social movements
Access point-Topical : African diaspora
Access point-Topical : Race discrimination
Language : ENGLISH
No. of times borrowed : 0

CONTENT NOTES

Contesting politics as usual : Black social movements, globalization, and race policy in Latin America / Tianna S. Paschel and Mark Q. Sawyer -- Multiethnic nations and cultural citizenship : proposals from the Afro-descendant movement in Ecuador / Jhon Antón Sánchez -- The Black movement in Panama : a historical and political interpretation, 1994-2004 / George Priestley and Alberto Barrow -- The liberation imperative of Black genocide : blueprints from the African diaspora in the Americas / João H. Costa Vargas -- Transnational Black feminism in the twenty-first century : perspectives from Brazil / Kia Lilly Caldwell -- The emergence and evolving character of contemporary Afro-Bolivian mobilization : from the performative to the political / Sara Busdiecker -- Afro-descendant struggles for collective rights in Latin America / Juliet Hooker -- Indians of African descent : history and contemporary experience / Beheroze Shroff -- Taking on empires : reparations, the right of return, and the people of Diego Garcia / David Vine -- Fightback : the movement against racial profiling in Europe / Clarence Lusane -- Rethinking global justice : Black women resist the transnational prison-industrial complex / Julia Sudbury -- Reconstituting political genealogies : reflections on youth, racial justice, and the uses of history / Ana Aparicio -- New forms : the political potential of hip-hop / Raymond Codrington -- Eco-apartheid and global greenwaves : African diasporic environmental justice movements / Melissa Checker -- Sista` friends and other allies : domestic workers united and coalition politics / Premilla Nadasen -- Barack Obama and the contours of African American social protest movements / Manning Marable -- New social movements in Nubian identity among Nubians in Egypt, Sudan, and the United States / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Richard A. Lobban.

ABSTRACT/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.

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