Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary

250 Pages·2014·1.82 MB·English

by  Alex Lubin

Geographies of Liberation
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Waldo E. Martin Jr. and Patricia Sullivan, editors
Geographies of
Liberation
the making of an
Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Alex Lubin
The University of North Carolina Press / Chapel Hill
This book was published with the assistance of the
John Hope Franklin Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.
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Dedicated to Barbara Lubin
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Contents
Acknowledgments, xi
Introduction / Geographies of Liberation, 1
1 / Overlapping Diasporas, 18
2 / From Subject to Citizen, 48
Dusé Mohamed Ali and the Afro-Orient
3 / Black Marxism and Binationalism, 78
4 / The Black Panthers and the PLO, 111
The Politics of Intercommunalism
5 / Neoliberalism, Security, and the Afro-Arab International, 142
Conclusion / Liberation at the Twilight of the American Era, 172
Notes, 177
Bibliography, 203
Index, 225
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Illustrations
Edward Wilmot Blyden, 41
C over of African Times and Orient Review , 58
Ralph Bunche in Palestine, 1948, 90
Huey Newton in Lebanon, 1980, 129
Map of Oslo Areas A, B, and C, 1995, 149
State and Federal Prison Population, 1925–2011, 153