Racial-state power and antiracist resistance both operate transnationally

Evidence

Anticolonial and antiracist campaigning, most notably in the wake of massive migrant mobilization, have recognized the global scope of racial conditions. Racial states anywhere are shored up in larger or smaller ways, more or less directly, by their connectedness to racial states everywhere. Resistance movements have understood the need to respond to racist conditions in appropriately global terms. The campaign led by Morel against Leopold’s regime in Central Africa grew from London but certainly looked for support to the USA and Europe. Colonial subjects, upon studying at the likes of Oxford and Paris, Amsterdam and Heidelberg, Moscow and Louvain, returned to their homelands to lead nationalist decolonizing movements in the name of Pan-Africanism and Negritude. Both sought and secured international connections, reflected not only in the Conference on Race in 1911 but also in the international sites of the various Pan-African Conventions (New York, London, Paris, Manchester). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1747

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the chapter’s claim about ‘nationalist internationalism’; connects to theories of racial formation as relational across nation-states. — connects to: Diffuse transnational forces resist opposition partly because they are hard to visualize — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 446; Anticolonial and US civil rights struggles form one interconnected antiracist mobilization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 90; American antiracists and anticolonial activists shared organized networks from 1911 onward. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 93 (+1 more)