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Abstract: This Master's thesis looks at the solidarities of black radicals in the mid-20th century and traces how they evolved in contact with the Cuban Revolution. I argue that the Cuban Revolution refracted and altered existing threads of black radical solidarity by acting as a discursive site for theorizing and debating the tactics and ideology of black freedom. This resulted in the strengthening ... read moreof black American Third World identity, the proliferation of a colonial understanding of the black condition, and the development of competing forms of black nationalism. This thesis positions the Cuban Revolution as a definitive moment in black radical intellectual history which did not necessarily originate any of the major threads of black radical solidarity, but which had a profound impact on the ways that the animating ideas of mid-20th century black radicalism were theorized and expressed from the 1960s through the 1970s and beyond.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2017.
Submitted to the Dept. of History.
Advisor: Reed Ueda.
Committee: Jeanne Penvenne, and Frances Sullivan.
Keywords: Black history, African American studies, and Black studies.read less
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