Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960

Carol Anderson (Emory University, Atlanta)

Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 December 2014
Pages
382
ISBN
9780521155731

Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960

Carol Anderson (Emory University, Atlanta)

Bourgeois Radicals explores the NAACP’s key role in the liberation of Africans and Asians across the globe even as it fought Jim Crow on the home front during the long civil rights movement. For NAACP’s leaders, the way to create a stable international system, stave off communism in Africa and Asia, and prevent capitalist exploitation was to embed human rights, with its economic and cultural protections, in the transformation of colonies into nations. Indeed, the NAACP aided in the liberation struggles of multiple African and Asian countries within the limited ideological space of the Second Red Scare. However, its vision of a ‘third way’ to democracy for the hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa was only partially realized due to a toxic combination of the Cold War, Jim Crow, and imperialism. Bourgeois Radicals examines the toll that internationalism took on the organization and illuminates the linkages between the struggle for human rights and the fight for colonial independence.

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