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By James R. Martel
Published: 03 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7343-8
... Haitian revolution Wilson’s Fourteen Points speech anticolonial movement Arab Spring Machiavelli ...
Published: 03 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373438-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7343-8
... to include. Thus the Haitian slaves answered the call of the French revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen even though it was never intended for them. The leaders of the anticolonial movements similarly responded to a call for self-determination put out by Wilson but he was manifestly...
Published: 03 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7343-8
... of the French revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen even though it was never intended for them. The leaders of the anticolonial movements similarly responded to a call for self-determination put out by Wilson but he was manifestly not thinking about them. Finally, Mohamed Bouazizi’s self...
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373230-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7323-0
... and anticolonial movements appropriated the racial signifier to mark a return to authenticity and vitalism within a degenerating Europe. the Black Man (le Nègre) Africa biological racism French imperial nation-state avant-garde ...
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373230-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7323-0
... time, the African sign shifted meanings, from fundamental difference, to a being-apart, to the possibility of assimilation. Yet Pan-Africanism, Negritude, and anticolonial movements as well as anthropology and geography, the latter of which increasingly equated Blackness with Africanness, insisted...
Published: 19 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059691-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5969-1
... Chapter 5 studies the relationship between the theosophical movement and Indian nationalism. It argues that the Spiritualist movement had a twin charge. On the one hand, its critical antiestablishment mores made it appealing to a colonial intelligentsia, but its overarching neo-Hinduism ensured...
Published: 13 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374367-023
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7436-7
... This essay argues that critical ethnic studies and identity politics must be seen against the backdrop of the “seismic shift” constituted by the decolonization of world culture. Central twentieth-century events—World War II, the Jewish Holocaust, Third Worldist anticolonialism, the civil rights...
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By Gary Y. Okihiro
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373834-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7383-4
... hundred years. The anticolonial, antiracist movements of the twentieth century changed the course of world history, and Third World studies is an aspect of that global revolution. Third World Liberation Front self-determination race relations ethnic studies ...
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By Gary Y. Okihiro
Published: 19 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059653-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5965-3
... The subjects of Third World studies are power and the oppressed masses of the Third World—Africa, Asia (and Oceania), and Latin America (and the Caribbean). The spatial designation marks areas of the world colonized by Europeans for some four hundred years. The Third World anticolonial...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... liberation movements and through their transcolonial reverberations.  jazz anticolonialism son Frantz Fanon ethnomusicology ...
Published: 08 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027560-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2756-0
... of the twentieth century in the rise of a radical Aymara student movement and its searing anticolonial critique of Bolivia's discriminatory public school policies in the 1970s; in Bolivia's halting (and ambivalent) turn toward a postcolonial pedagogy of bilingualism, racial inclusion, and ethnic pluralism...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-124
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Felipe Quispe Huanca, born in an Aymara community on the banks of Lake Titicaca, started out in Aymara politics in the 1970s as a member of the Tupaj Katari Indian Movement ( mitka ), a radical indianista party that rejected class struggle for anticolonial struggle against non-Indian oppressors...
Published: 04 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059912-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5991-2
... In a new introduction written for this volume, Aurora Levins Morales looks back at her fifty-year career, offering a memoir of a writing life embedded in the social movements of her time including struggles for feminism, anti-Zionist Judaism, anticolonial politics in Puerto Rico, disability...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... their direct connections to national liberation movements and through their transcolonial reverberations.  jazz anticolonialism son Frantz Fanon ethnomusicology This essay explores the economic and affective relationship between jazz music and cigarettes as they circulated the globe...
Series: The C. L. R. James Archives
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7394-0
... as a timely catalyst to the emerging radical movement in Detroit. He describes how the book was read and admired by most of the individuals who were active in Detroit radical politics, including many who would be in the leadership of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Georgakas concludes...
Published: 13 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7436-7
... of world culture. Central twentieth-century events—World War II, the Jewish Holocaust, Third Worldist anticolonialism, the civil rights struggle, and minority liberation movements—simultaneously delegitimized the West as the axiomatic center of reference and affirmed the rights of non-European peoples...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-099
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... In the aftermath of the revolution of 1952 and the agrarian reform of 1953, the historically marginalized rural majorities in the highlands and valleys found an ally in the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) government and received the promise of “modernization” if they would exchange...
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2747-8
... such as Habermas and Honneth as they seek to move beyond the resignation of Adorno’s later work through theories of “communicative action” and “recognition.” Readers encounter a significant parallel to the concept of social labor in the cultural modalities of “new social movements” during the 1960s and 1970s...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374312-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... This chapter charts the history of organizational politics of Dalits in Telugu-speaking areas of the nizam’s territory and the Madras presidency, which predates Ambedkar’s movement. It exemplifies the history of Dalit organizations, such as the Adi-Andhra Mahajana Sabha in the coastal Andhra...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-108
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... of Aymara and Quechua peasant struggles during the twentieth century and was written as the militant peasant union movement had burst on the scene as a national political force. The movement’s strength derived in part from a complex historical consciousness that Rivera creatively analyzed in terms of short...