Love for Liberation
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Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground is a 2021 non-fiction book written by American writer and filmmaker Dr. Robin J. Hayes and published by the University of Washington Press. This narrative history details how--as Black Power activists were increasingly frustrated by the slow pace of progress toward equality--the African American press and HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities) hailed African independence movements as role models for racial justice.[1] Inspired by the leaders of these new nations, activists including Malcolm X, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), and Kathleen Neal Cleaver journeyed to the continent where they became entangled in intrigue, hijacking, romance, and murder.[2] Hayes argues that exchanges between African independence and Black power organizations fostered a sense of unity between Africans and African Americans and helped lay the foundation for the Black Lives Matter movement.[3]
Chapter Titles[edit]
- Diaspora Underground
- "New African in the World”
- “A Free Black Mind”
- “Independence With Danger”
- “Our Problem is Your Problem”
- “Mississippi Eyes”
- “Love Our Community”
- “We Have Come Back”
- “Ready for the Revolution”
Epilogue: Black Lives Matter
A Diaspora Underground[edit]
Set during the height of the Cold War, Love for Liberation is a crucial case study of exchanges by leaders in the Black Panther Party, Organization of Afro-American Unity, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with anti-colonial activists in Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea, and Tanzania.[3] Hayes theorizes that these exchanges created what she names “a diaspora underground.”[4] According to Hayes, a diaspora underground is a "transnational space-time that connects Black social movement organizations, activists, and constituencies across nation-state borders through a configuration of spaces, routes that connect these spaces, and a shared understanding of the past, present, and future."[5] These connections are motivated by movement frustrations with domestic elites and facilitated by the work of institutions indigenous to Black communities.[6]
External Links[edit]
University of Washington Press official book website
New Books in African American Studies podcast
References[edit]
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hayes, Robin J. (2021). Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 9–18. ISBN 9780295749075. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Davis, Thomas J. "Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground by Robin J. Hayes". Library Journal. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hayes, Robin J. (2021). Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780295749075. Search this book on
- ↑ Hayes, Robin J. (2021). Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 20, 21. ISBN 9780295749075. Search this book on
- ↑ Hayes, Robin J. (2021). Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 180–181. ISBN 9780295749075. Search this book on
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