Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960

Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960

Author
Nicholas Grant
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Edition
Illustrated
Year
2017
Page
324
ISBN
1469635275,9781469635279
File Type
epub
File Size
5.7 MiB

In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that U.S.-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism. Instead, by tracing the considerable amount of time, money, and effort the state invested into responding to black international criticism, Grant outlines the extent to which the U.S. and South African governments were forced to reshape and occasionally reconsider their racial policies in the Cold War world.

This study shows how African Americans and black South Africans navigated transnationally organized state repression in ways that challenged white supremacy on both sides of the Atlantic. The political and cultural ties that they forged during the 1940s and 1950s are testament to the insistence of black activists in both countries that the struggle against apartheid and Jim Crow were intimately interconnected.

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