Red Africa - Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics
Verlag | Verso |
Auflage | 2023 |
Seiten | 176 |
Format | 13,0 x 1,2 x 20,0 cm |
Paperback | |
Gewicht | 154 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Salvage Editions |
EAN | 9781839767371 |
Bestell-Nr | 83976737UA |
Excavating the history of Marxism and Black revolutionary politics
Excavating the history of Marxism and Black revolutionary politics
Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa. Contemporary debates on Black radicalism and decolonisation have lost sight of the concerns that animated their twentieth-century intellectual forebears. Okoth responds, challenging the claim that Marxism and Black radicalism are incompatible and showing that both are embraced in the anti-imperialist tradition he calls 'Red Africa'.
The politics of Black revolutionary writers Eduardo Mondlane, Amílcar Cabral, Walter Rodney and Andrée Blouin gesture toward a decolonised future that never materialised - instead it was betrayed, violently sup- pressed, or erased. We might yet build something new from the ruins of national liberation, something which sustains the utopian promise of freedom and refuses to surrender. Red Africa is a political project that hopes to salvage what remains of this tradition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1 Decolonisation and the Decline of the 'Bandung Spirit'
2 From Black Studies to Afro-pessimism: The Making of an Anti-politics
3 Racial Capitalism and the Afterlives of Slavery
4 Négritude and the (Mal)practice of Diaspora
5 Whose Fanon? On Blackness and National Liberation
6 Neo-colonialism, or, The Emptiness of Bearing One's Flag
7 Remnants of Red Africa
Rezension:
Provocative and polemical, Red Africa probes the limits of contemporary discourses of Black Studies and returns to the neglected histories of Marxism on the continent, finding resources for charting new emancipatory futures. Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination