... data, mainstream media, and recent activist projects like Letters for Black Lives, this essay critiques the notion of “empathy” as a foundation for meaningful multiracial alliance. Solidarity based on notions of shared suffering can create a false equivalence between different experiences of racialized...

... the possibilities of cross-­racial solidarities. It is marked as much by the long shadows of American Cold War thinking on politics in other parts of the world as it is by the colonial trope of wily, immigrant Indian capital pitted against the Afri- can native. The latter was part of a transnational colonial...

... as referent points for imagining and consolidating a distinctive Indian identity in a Cold War context.”5 Menon, in his review, rejects this assessment as “premature in its skepticism regarding the pos- sibilities of cross-­racial solidarities” in the post-­Bandung world. We have provided space...

... they were blinded by the Afro-Asian solidarity of the 1954 Bandung Conference. Indonesia used Bandung to codify its eventual colonization of West Papua. This article complicates Bandung as an iconic symbol of Global South solidarity. Excavating newspapers, indigenous magazines and archives on Melanesia...

... and progressive, at other times naïve, opportunistic, and/or conservative and, on the whole, personified the paradoxes and complications of Third World solidarity, racial nationalism, and postcolonial politics. The essay revisits five particular moments in this history: Ali’s 1964 visit to three African countries...

... and Mark Clark by Chicago Police officers, a racially and politically heterogenous coalition exposed the connection between police brutality and knowledge production. Activists developed a radical critique of police brutality’s role in sustaining an unequal social order and opened new possibilities...

... its pseudopopulism cele- brated not worker against boss but America against Europe! As for class conflict, moments of labor solidarity across racial lines, 146/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW argues Roediger, emerged not from imaginary identifications with a disowned black self in popular culture...

... through the style and communication strategies of the U.S. Panthers, indicating their class and racial solidarity and their recognition that blackness and diaspora were ultimately modern concepts.9 This article also belongs to literatures on the long legacy of black internation- alism and its...

... of imposed racial solidarity. The argument that African Americans pursue economic 14-Gaines 9/16/03 12:33 PM Page 216 216 Radical History Review cooperation toward the distant goal of integration sent shock waves throughout the black intelligentsia...

... about the “Negro,” and their impact on Afro-Cuban conceptions of race. These connections did not just constitute expressions of racial solidarity; rather they made for seminal influences in the ways Cubans and North Americans of African descent came to view...

... in Cuba a model of a Caribbean nation that, through socialism, defeated neoimperialism and redressed its social consequences. Curiously, while many US Black Power activists went to Cuba in search of socialist conceptions of racial solidarity, activists among the Antillean diaspora did not build...

... elbows as they donated blood . The photo demanded recognition of Tucker and Nordheimer’s joint humanity, their strength and vulnerability, and it announced their solidarity. The photo also challenged a racial caste system that proscribed racial intermixture, particularly across gender lines. Union...

... Burton | Cold War Cosmopolitanism 169 of cultural and racial solidarity in the age of Bandung. Indeed, Rama Rau may be said to have linked postcolonial realities and Cold War concerns in a register that few contemporaries were able to do, making lateral connections that are, even now, just...

...Figure 1. Verde Olivo cartoon (March 21, 1976, by René de la Nuez), featuring Angola as a Black combatant and Cuba unnamed but represented as the inanimate globe “Solidarity.” The two confront their Angolan enemies, the racially indistinct rats, as well as white imperialists: the United States...

...Nelson Lichtenstein Copyright ©2000 MARHO: The Radical Historian's Organization, Inc. 2000 THE PAST IN PRINT Vanishing Jobs in a Racialized America Nelson Lichtenstein Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins...

... of the GDR (Berlin: Solidarity Committee of the GDR, 1978). 26. Erste Dekade zur Bekämpfung von Rassismus und Rassendiskriminierung (Action Decade against Racism and Racial Discrimination), 1973 – 83, A/RES/2919 (XXVII), online at United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe...

... feminist, queer, and also youth coalitions to seek solace and solidarity with each other within that space. The terrain of struggle is not only the settler-colonial state, but also the hegemonic patriarchal narratives for Palestinian liberation that further entrench existing racial-sexual arrangements...

... sutured together a diverse range of communities by what they understood as global processes of racial capitalism and imperialism. From this lexicon emerged Palestine in the Puerto Rican political imaginary, characterized by the invocation of solidarity as a vehicle for colonial com- parisons. Take...

... and solidarity across the black world developed as a result of knowledge formed out of transnational linkages. He illustrates how “racial citizenship” is employed in the relationship between Cubans of color and African Americans. His piece tells a story...