A Bibliography of Black Internationalism, Part II
The scholarship on Black internationalism has grown in leaps and bounds since my first reading list on the topic–originally published on this site in April 2015. It is difficult to keep up with the amazing work being produced in the field but I certainly try to stay abreast of all the new books–as well as new articles and dissertations–on the subject. The new book series on Black internationalism, which I am editing with Quito Swan for the University of Illinois Press, will no doubt play a significant role in the continual growth of this important field of study. The first publication in the series, scheduled for release in Spring 2019, is a volume I co-edited on Black women’s internationalism. This volume will add to the list of recent and innovative works below, which highlight the global dimensions of the Black freedom struggle.
- Adi, Hakim. Pan-Africanism: A History. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
- Azaransky, Sarah. This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Bedasse, Monique. Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
- Blain, Keisha. Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
- Cole, Peter. Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
- Daut, Marlene. Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017.
- Davis, James. Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
- Dworkin, Ira. Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
- Farmer, Ashley. Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
- Garland Mahler, Anne. From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
- Germain, Félix. Decolonizing the Republic: African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946–1974. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016.
- Gilyard, Keith. Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
- Grant, Nicholas. Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
- Horne, Gerald. Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity. New York: New York University Press, 2018.
- Horne, Gerald. Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. London: Pluto Press, 2016.
- Lowney, John. Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
- Malloy, Sean. Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017.
- Markle, Seth. A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism, 1964–1974. East Lansing: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
- Munro, John. The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Rasberry, Vaughn. Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Rickford, Russell. We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Rivera-Rideau, Petra, Jones, Jennifer & Paschel, Thomas, eds. Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Scott, Julius. The Common Wind: Afro-American Organization in the Revolution Against Slavery. New York: Verso, 2018.
- Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015.
- Stevens, Margaret. Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Tinson, Christopher. Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
- Umoren, Imaobong. Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.
- Valdés, Vanessa. Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017.
- Williams, Bianca. The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
This is amazing! Thanks a lot!
A great list to share with my grad students!
Thank you. Much appreciated