In From the Tricontinental to the Global South Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance.
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Beyond the Color Curtain: From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental
- Two. In the Belly of the Beast: African American Civil Rights through a Tricontinental Lens
- Three. The “Colored and Oppressed” in Amerikkka: Trans-Affective Solidarity in Writings by Young Lords and Nuyoricans
- Four. “Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café”: Racial Politics in the “Latin, African” Nation
- Five. The (New) Global South in the Age of Global Capitalism: A Return to the Tricontinental
- Conclusion. Against Ferguson? Internationalism from the Tricontinental to the Global South
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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