16. William Greaves, Black Journal, and the Long Roots of Black Internationalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Celeste Day Moore
Keyword(s):  
Black Internationalism

Prophetic Suffering and Black Internationalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Dorrien
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
Liberal Theology ◽  
Howard University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Socialism ◽  
Long Time

The generation of black social gospel leaders who began their careers in the 1920s assumed the social justice politics and liberal theology of the social gospel from the beginning of their careers. Mordecai Johnson became the leading example by espousing racial justice militancy, Christian socialism, Gandhian revolutionary internationalism, and anti-anti-Communism as the long-time (and long embattled) president of Howard University

Black Women and the Complexities of Internationalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Keisha N. Blain ◽  
Tiffany M. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Broad Overview

This introductory essay offers a broad overview of the history and scholarship on black internationalism and examines the significance of employing a gender analysis and centering women’s ideas and activities. In so doing, it engages two central questions: (1) how was black women’s engagement in internationalism similar to or different from their male counterparts?, and (2) To what extent did black women merge internationalism with issues of women’s rights or feminist concerns? It also highlights the book’s interventions and provides a roadmap for the individual essays in the book, arranged thematically and chronologically.

“No Race Question”

2019 ◽  
pp. 242-264
Author(s):  
José Andrés Fernández Montes de Oca
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
Labor Politics ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
Labor Organizing ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Universal Negro Improvement Association ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pan Africanism

In the past, authors have emphasized the importance of Marcus Garvey’s ideas and organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, in the development of the labor movement in Trinidad after 1919. In so doing, they have often overlooked a more complex reality on the ground. This chapter examines the ways in which the Trinidad Workingmen’s Association (TWA) combined Garveyism and labor politics, and how they navigated the potential contradictions between class-based and race-based organizing more broadly. It adds to the existing literature on Garveyism and race consciousness in Trinidad, a perspective that situates the TWA’s ideas on race and class as a local dialogue interacting with global discussions among black radicals about labor organizing, socialism, communism, black internationalism, and pan-Africanism.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Grant
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
State Power ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
Black Protest ◽  
Direct Support ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Economic Ties

This concluding chapter argues that African Americans were part of a broad and multifaceted effort to isolate South Africa in the global political arena. By repeatedly attempting to offer direct support to African liberation movements and calling for America to renounce its political and economic ties with the National Party, their actions made life difficult for white politicians in ways that that would continue to inform the global anti-apartheid movement beyond the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. This argument is not meant to downplay the disruptive influence that anticommunism had on black protest. Rather, it is designed to shift the focus onto the ways in which black activists, with different political visions, responded to state power. Finally, given the broad response of African Americans to the anti-apartheid movement, this concluding chapter suggests that we might need to move towards a more expansive definition of black internationalism – one that accounts for the anticolonial political agenda and transnational solidarities forges by both African American leftists and liberals.

Black Women’s Internationalism from the Age of Revolutions to World War I

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon R. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
International Council ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Feminists ◽  
Universal Negro Improvement Association ◽  
Global Consciousness

Black internationalism describes the political culture and intellectual practice forged in response to slavery, colonialism, and white imperialism. It is a historical and ongoing collective struggle against racial oppression rooted in global consciousness. While the expression of black internationalism has certainly changed across time and place, black liberation through collaboration has been and remains its ultimate goal. Since the emergence of black internationalism as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and during the Age of Revolutions, black women such as the poet Phyllis Wheatley and evangelist Rebecca Protten have been at its forefront. Their writings and activism espoused an Afro-diasporic, global consciousness and promoted the cause of universal emancipation. During the 19th century, black women internationalists included abolitionists, missionaries, and clubwomen. They built on the work of their predecessors while laying the foundations for succeeding black women internationalists in the early 20th century. By World War I, a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals remained crucial parts of the International Council of Women, an organization founded by white suffragists from the United States, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a global organization formally led by Jamaican pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey. But they also formed an independent organization, the International Council of Women of the Darker Races (ICWDR). Within and outside of the ICWDR, black women from Africa and the African Diaspora faced and challenged discrimination on the basis of their sex and race. Their activism and intellectual work set a powerful precedent for a subsequent wave of black internationalism shaped by self-avowed black feminists.

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