From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity

Anne Garland Mahler

Published by Duke University Press 2018

From the Tricontinental to the Global South

Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity

Anne Garland Mahler

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371717

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About this book

Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental and calls for a revival of the Tricontinental's politics as a means to strengthen racial justice and anti-neoliberal struggles in the twenty-first-century.

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Anne Garland Mahler is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is particularly effective in its close reading of cultural texts and thus makes a significant contribution to cultural studies and cultural criticism. In centering Latin American and Black Radical intellectual and artistic traditions in its discussion of left transnational politics, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism, it effectively shifts the focus from Western Marxist traditions to racialized, oppressed, and dispossessed scholar-activists. Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Power studies, and subfields of history, sociology, and political science that focus on power relations, political organizing, and social movements will benefit from this framing."

-- Charisse Burden-Stelly Black Perspectives

"Mahler convincingly argues that movements many readers may be familiar with, such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, and Black Lives Matter, were inheritors of or collaborators in this Tricontinental aesthetic. Reproductions of striking film stills and bold graphic design make the book as visually captivating as it is wonderfully written—modeling the Tricontinental’s commitment to a well-designed revolution."

-- Amanda Reid Public Books

"[A] rich, interdisciplinary history of the Tricontinental. . . . Historians of the United States will find interesting the many links between conceptions of the Global South and of the American South."

-- Nico Slate Journal of American History

"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is a compelling read and should appeal to a broad range of scholars who are interested in racial transnational social movements, racial capitalism, and the politics of culture in the Americas."

-- Juan De Lara Aztlán

"A conceptually rich examination of the political and aesthetic vocabularies produced by and around the Tricontinental, combining rigorous historical investigation with close formal analysis of works of literature, film, and visual culture. . . . Not only does From the Tricontinental to the Global South offer a long history of resistant politics in which Latin American, Afro-descendant, and African American intellectuals have played a central role, it provides a long view of contemporary understandings of the Global South, which both grounds the concept and gives it renewed critical heft. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in and working on the Global South today."

-- Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Chasqui

“From the Tricontinental to the Global South is both interesting and challenging. . . . This would be a good book to use in graduate seminars on global history, the history of radicalism, and theory and history. Specialists will appreciate Mahler’s attention to detail and how she employs different types of evidence to analyze a largely forgotten radical movement.”

-- Evan C. Rothera African Studies Quarterly

"This book enriches the oeuvre of contemporary Cold War studies and critiques of neoliberalism. It builds on transnational scholarship that moves the Global South and Third Worldism away from national or regional paradigms to explain oppression and its resistance. … Mahler should be commended for the voluminous material she dissects and for jumping into the thorniness of these overlapping issues."

-- John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco American Historical Review

"From the Tricontinental to the Global South offers an indispensable historical perspective for understanding our tumultuous present; until Mahler releases an updated edition with a Tricontinentalist reading of the immediate post-George Floyd era, readers can only wait in anticipation."

-- Daniel Cooper American Literary History

"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is an outstanding and at times astounding book…. This book is likely to actually reshape the way fields, such as Latinx and postcolonial studies, define their relation to a centrally important but chronologically neglected history. I can imagine many graduate students not only adding this book to their Ph.D. reading lists but rethinking the entire trajectory of their future work because of it."

-- Alfred J. López Modern Fiction Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE Beyond the Color Curtain From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
TWO In the Belly of the Beast African American Civil Rights through a Tricontinental Lens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
THREE The “Colored and Oppressed” in Amerikkka Trans-Affective Solidarity in Writings by Young Lords and Nuyoricans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
FOUR “Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café” Racial Politics in the “Latin, African” Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
FIVE The (New) Global South in the Age of Global Capitalism A Return to the Tricontinental Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
CONCLUSION Against Ferguson? Internationalism from the Tricontinental to the Global South Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 14 illustrations

eBook

Published: April 19, 2018
ISBN: 9780822371717