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George Padmore and decolonization from below : pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the end of empire
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From his base in London, the Trinidad-born Marxist, George Padmore, was a central figure of mid-twentieth century pan-Africanism who became critically involved in debates about the nature and practice of European imperialism. Focusing on Padmore's political manoeuvring, Leslie James traces his politics through the ongoing influence of the Caribbean and the legacy of the Garvey movement; the international communist movement and Soviet decolonization; debates about fascism and colonialism; the new 'reform' rhetoric apparent in World War II; the beginnings of the Cold War; and, pivotally, post-war African politics that confronted a wealth of new dynamics including independent Ghana, apartheid South Africa, and the Mau Mau Emergency in Kenya. Within the ideas and political practice of this forthright man lie a number of common questions about the circulation of ideas, the shape of black radical thought, and the weight of Cold War politics within the modern history of European imperialism and the end of empire.
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This book argues that the rising tide of anti-colonialism after the 1930s should be considered a turning point not just in harnessing a new mood or feeling of unity, but primarily as one that viewed empire, racism, and economic degradation as part of a system that fundamentally required the application of strategy to their destruction.
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Leslie James is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham. Prior to this, she was Lecturer in World History at the University of Cambridge. Other publications include the forthcoming volume, Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence , co-edited with Elisabeth Leake.
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Introduction: The Artful Anti-Colonialist
1. Origins: 'The Most Completely Political Negro'
2. Putting Empire in Black and White: Padmore's Ideas about Race and Empire
3. 'The Long, Long Night is Over': A War of Opportunity?
4. Writing Anti-Imperial Solidarity from London: George Padmore's Colonial Journalism, 1940-1951
5. The Psychological Moment: The Colonial Office, Pan-Africanism, and the Problem of the Soviet Union, 1946-1950
6. A Buttress for the 'Beacon Light'
7. The Era of Padmore the 'Outsider': Nation, Diaspora, and Modernity, 1950-1956
8. Ghana, Death, and the Afterlife
Conclusion: 'The Soliloquy of Africa'
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Trustee for the Human Community
Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for postwar decolonization ending European control of Africa as well as an international framework for the oversight of the decolonization process after the Second World War.Trustee for the Human Communityis the first volume to examine the totality of Bunche's unrivalled role in the struggle for African independence both as a key intellectual and an international diplomat and to illuminate it from the broader African American perspective.These commissioned essays examine the full range of Ralph Bunche's involvement in Africa. The scholars explore sensitive political issues, such as Bunche's role in the Congo and his views on the struggle in South Africa.Trustee for the Human Communitystands as a monument to the profoundly important role of one of the greatest Americans in one of the greatest political movements in the history of the twentieth century.Contributors: David Anthony, Ralph A. Austen, Abena P. A. Busia, Neta C. Crawford, Robert R. Edgar, Charles P. Henry, Robert A. Hill, Edmond J. Keller, Martin Kilson, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Jon Olver, Pearl T. Robinson, Elliott P. Skinner, Crawford Young
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The United Nations and Decolonization
Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The authors in this book explore this dynamic in order to expand our understanding of both the achievements and the limits of international support for the independence of colonized peoples. This book will prove foundational for scholars and students of modern history, international history, and postcolonial history.
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Empires in the sun : the struggle for the mastery of Africa
In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His narrative is laced with the experiences of participants and onlookers and introduces the men and women who, for better or worse, stamped their wills on Africa.
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Tears, fire, and blood : the United States and the decolonization of Africa
In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world's population.Decolonization, Black and Brown freedom movements, the establishment of the United Nations and NATO, an exploding Cold War, a burgeoning world human rights movement, all became part.
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