Twentieth-century antiracist struggles were cross-racial and genuinely global in scope

Evidence

Anticolonialism and civil rights struggles were global movements. Men, women, and even children engaged in transand interand multi-racial mobilizations regarding Africa and African America, Asia and Latin America, often (though not always) with a feminist thrust. Long guerilla campaigns in Kenya or Zimbabwe, Algeria or Angola, Mozambique or Vietnam, and a long march in China were matched by civil rights marches in Selma or on Washington, confronting cannon fire in the one instance and water cannon in the other. Anti-apartheid mobilizations offered an even more robust multi-dimensional global and cross-racial movement alongside township mass mobilization beneath asphyxiating tear gas and uprisings before the gun turrets of “Casspirs full of love,” as the noted South African artist William Kentridge has ironically put it. These local South African anti-apartheid expressions were joined by multicultural mass rallies in Trafalgar Square, student divestment campaigns on American campuses, art exhibits in Paris and Amsterdam, not to mention Cuban and Palestinian, African-American and Afro-Brazilian solidarities. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 110

Categorization

• SHARE: Kentridge’s ‘Casspirs full of love’ line is a sharp ironic fragment worth sending to someone into South African art or apartheid history.
• XREF: connects to: 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; Multicultural movements of the 1980s-90s grew partly from anti-apartheid struggles — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 102 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Anticolonial and civil-rights movements pursued complementary goals against overlapping racial structures #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 98
• Postwar racial nationalist movements linked local resistance to global antiimperialism #corroborates (0.85)
• The Comintern conceptualized the global Negro movement as sectors of one world anti-imperialist struggle #corroborates (0.82)
• Racial-state power and antiracist resistance both operate transnationally #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1747
• Anti-apartheid linked antiracist struggle to democratic definition worldwide #exemplifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 100
• Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism #exemplifies (0.75)
• Anti-Blackness forms a single connected global phenomenon #corroborates (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1117