Robin J. Hayes

Love for Liberation (eBook, ePUB)

African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title

Illuminates how global solidarity defined African American politics and invigorated the African diaspora

During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the 1957 Ghanaian independence celebration, the optimism and challenges of African independence leaders were publicized to African Americans through community-based newspapers and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Inspired by African independenceand frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms in the USa new generation of Black Power activists embarked on nonviolent direct action campaigns and built alternative institutions designed as spaces of freedom from racial subjugation.

Featuring interviews with activists, extensive archival research, and media analysis, Robin Hayes reveals how Black Power and African independence activists created a diaspora underground, characterized by collaboration and reciprocal empowerment. Together, they redefined racial discrimination as an international human rights issue requiring education, sustained collective action, and global solidaritylaying the groundwork for future transnational racial justice movements, such as Black Lives Matter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295749068
• Artikelnr.: 62209624

Autorenporträt

Robin J. Hayes is Founder and Executive Director of Progressive Pupil, an organization that creates transformative media and learning experiences about the African diaspora. She is also the director of Black and Cuba, the first documentary film to explore the relationship between African Americans and Cuba. She received her PhD in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale in 2006. This is her first book.