Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
We Are Internationalists
Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation
-
Martha Biondi
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Explores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt.
For many civil rights activists, the Vietnam War brought the dangers of US imperialism and the global nature of antiracist struggle into sharp relief. Martha Biondi tells the story of one such group of activists who built an internationalist movement in Chicago committed to liberation everywhere but especially to ending colonialism and apartheid in Africa.
Among their leaders was Prexy Nesbitt. Steeped from an early age in stories of Garveyism and labor militancy, Nesbitt was powerfully influenced by his encounters with the exiled African radicals he met in Dar es Salaam, London, and across the United States. Operating domestically and abroad, Nesbitt's cohort worked closely with opponents of Portuguese and white minority rule in Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa. Rather than promoting a US conception of Black self-determination, they took ideas from African anticolonial leaders and injected them into US foreign policy debates.
The biography of a man but even more so of a movement, We Are Internationalists reveals the underappreciated influence of a transformative Black solidarity project.
For many civil rights activists, the Vietnam War brought the dangers of US imperialism and the global nature of antiracist struggle into sharp relief. Martha Biondi tells the story of one such group of activists who built an internationalist movement in Chicago committed to liberation everywhere but especially to ending colonialism and apartheid in Africa.
Among their leaders was Prexy Nesbitt. Steeped from an early age in stories of Garveyism and labor militancy, Nesbitt was powerfully influenced by his encounters with the exiled African radicals he met in Dar es Salaam, London, and across the United States. Operating domestically and abroad, Nesbitt's cohort worked closely with opponents of Portuguese and white minority rule in Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa. Rather than promoting a US conception of Black self-determination, they took ideas from African anticolonial leaders and injected them into US foreign policy debates.
The biography of a man but even more so of a movement, We Are Internationalists reveals the underappreciated influence of a transformative Black solidarity project.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Martha Biondi
Martha Biondi is Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Black Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of The Black Revolution on Campus and To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City.
Topics
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
i |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
v |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
vii |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
ix |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
xi |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
xii |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
1 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
17 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
49 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
90 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
133 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
176 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
221 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
249 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
253 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
291 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
297 |
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 31, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9780520417724
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
320
eBook ISBN:
9780520417724
Keywords for this book
activist networks; African diaspora solidarity; Cold War geopolitics; liberation theology; transnational; solidarity movements; independence; civil rights internationalism; grassroots organizing; political mobilization; anti-apartheid activism; Black studies; third world studies; Black freedom struggle; colonialism; White Supremacy
