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 Internationalism, Anticommunism, and the Prison

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Grant
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black Protest ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
White Settler Colonialism ◽  
Global Language

Chapters 5 and 6 both document how African Americans and black South Africans established the prison as a key site of black international protest in the 1950s. Specifically, chapter 5 examines how anticommunism operated as a global language that was employed to bolster white supremacy and limit black protest. However, this section of the book also demonstrates how black activists responded to their arrest and imprisonment by strategically connected white settler colonialism in southern Africa to racism in America. This resulted in political prisoners on both sides of the Atlantic being configured as icons of resistance, heroic figures through which black international solidarities were launched and maintained.

English in South Africa: parallels with African American vernacular English

English Today ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesel Hibbert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
South African ◽  
The United States ◽  
African American Vernacular English ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
American Vernacular ◽  
South African Politics

A comparison between Black English usage in South Africa and the United StatesThere has been a long tradition of resistance in South African politics, as there has been for African-Americans in the United States. The historical links between African Americans and their counterparts on the African continent prompt one to draw a comparison between the groups in terms of linguistic and social status. This comparison demonstrates that Black South African English (BSAfE) is a distinctive form with its own stable conventions, as representative in its own context as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is in the United States.

Unexpected Frontiers of Black Internationalism: African Americans in Soviet Central Asia, 1930–1976

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athan Andreas Biss
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
Creative Force ◽  
Soviet Central Asia

Central Asia has long captured the imagination of Western travelers as an exotic and mysterious destination. After the region was incorporated into the Soviet Union, it became a centerpiece of the Soviet modernization campaign. African Americans in particular were greatly interested in Soviet Central Asia and what they perceived as an alternative to Western imperialism and American racial segregation. This article explores how Soviet Central Asia appeared to African Americans who traveled, worked, and lived in the region in the 1930s and compares these impressions with those of African American tourists who visited the region three decades later. Did African American engagement with Central Asia act as an emancipatory, creative force for interracial solidarity or did it constitute another form of Orientalist discourse?

“They Will All Be My Color”

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-148
Author(s):  
Nicole Anae
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Racial Climate ◽  
American Film ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
Theatrical Performance

Nina Mae McKinney (1912-1967), American star of stage and screen, arrived in Australia in 1937 as the leading lady of a vaudeville theatrical performance. She was the first African American film actress to appear in Australia, and the sheer scope of her media interest produced reviews of performances, stories of her film career, and commentaries of her associations with other African Americans of contemporary interest. Taken together, this ephemera makes for instructive reading as iterations responsive to black internationalism as expressed by a woman who had been marginalized by Hollywood’s racial climate but reified internationally as a major talent. Through a critical examination of McKinney’s Australian press, this essay offers a comprehensive rereading of McKinney’s public presence in Australia through the lens of black internationalism.

This Is Not Dixie

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent M. S. Campney
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Property Damage ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Definition Of

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. This book explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post-Civil War Kansas. The book's definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence—property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns—used to intimidate African Americans. As the book shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet the book's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while also using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion. Ambitious and provocative, this book rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.

More Shadow than Substance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Wright Rigueur
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Substance P ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Black Republicans ◽  
State And Local ◽  
American Party ◽  
Local Party

This chapter studies how, as the 1970s progressed, black Republicans were able to claim clear victories in their march toward equality: the expansion of the National Black Republican Council (NBRC); the incorporation of African Americans into the Republican National Committee (RNC) hierarchy; scores of black Republicans integrating state and local party hierarchies; and individual examples of black Republican success. African American party leaders could even point to their ability to forge a consensus voice among the disparate political ideas of black Republicans. Despite their ideological differences, they collectively rejected white hierarchies of power, demanding change for blacks both within the Grand Old Party (GOP) and throughout the country. Nevertheless, black Republicans quickly realized that their strategy did not reform the party institution.

Reducing Police Brutality in African American Communities: Potential Roles for Social Workers in Congregations

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Betty Wilson ◽  
Terry A. Wolfer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Religious Congregations ◽  
Predominantly Black ◽  
African American Communities ◽  
White Congregations

In the last decade, there have been a shocking number of police killings of unarmed African Americans, and advancements in technology have made these incidents more visible to the general public. The increasing public awareness of police brutality in African American communities creates a critical and urgent need to understand and improve police-community relationships. Congregational social workers (and other social workers who are part of religious congregations) have a potentially significant role in addressing the problem of police brutality. This manuscript explores and describes possible contributions by social workers, with differential consideration for those in predominantly Black or White congregations.

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