Dream the Size of Freedom : How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Interna...
by R. Joseph Parrott
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Dream the Size of Freedom : How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism, Hardcover by Parrott, R. Joseph, ISBN 1512827673, ISBN-13 9781512827675, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US How anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s Dream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s and influenced American foreign policy as the Vietnam War drew to a close. These Portuguese African liberation movements, led by nationalists like Eduardo Mondlane and Amílcar Cabral, built global solidarity networks to support their military and social challenges to empire while defending against Western intervention. US activists disillusioned with the Cold War came to see African self-determination as central to global campaigns for racial and economic justice. A broad coalition ranging from Black Power radicals to religious liberals mobilized against the North Atlantic alliance with Portugal. In the process, this grassroots movement helped define a New Left Internationalism that championed decentralized, multiracial organizing and a collaborative vision of US foreign policy to redress historic inequalities between Global North and South. Drawing on more than fifty oral histories and research in government and activist archives on three
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Year: 2025
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781512827675
- Condition: Fine
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