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George Padmore and decolonization from below : pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the end of empire /
The consolidation of anti-colonial and anti-racist movements in the first half of the twentieth century is often described through a narrative of 'moments' and 'moods'. Tempering this tendency, this book emphasizes that the rising tide of anti-colonialism and anti-racism after th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the artful anti-colonialist
- Origins: "The most completely political Negro"
- Putting empire in black and white: Padmore's ideas about race and empire
- "The long, long night is over": a war of opportunity?
- Writing anti-imperial solidarity from London: George Padmore's colonial journalism, 1940-1951
- The psychological moment: the Colonial Office, pan-Africanism, and the problem of the Soviet Union, 1946-1950
- A buttress for the "beacon light"
- The era of Padmore the "outsider": nation, diaspora, and modernity, 1950-1956
- Ghana, death, and the afterlife
- Conclusion: "The soliloquy of Africa."