African American Internationalism and Anti-Fascism

Catherine Bergin

African American Internationalism and Anti-Fascism

Catherine Bergin

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Abstract

By the late 1930s The Crisis could claim that in Harlem ‘Spanish Freedom and Negro freedom were made to be synonymous’ and nearly 100 African Americans joined what is now referred to as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to ﬁght for the Spanish Republic. The chapter shows that the links made between racism and fascism by black activists were informed by the lived experience of ‘race’ in the US and also by the ambitious and dynamic race/ class politics of the black Left. As victims of the ‘domestic fascism’ of Jim Crow many of these activists pointed to their vanguard role in ﬁghting fascism at home and abroad and presented an anti-fascist vision which was dependent on anti-racist transnationalism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective
Subtitle of host publication	Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism
Editors	Kasper Braskén , Nigel Copsey , David Featherstone
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	13
Pages	254-272
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9780429058356
ISBN (Print)	9781138352186
Publication status	Published - 21 Sept 2020

Publication series

Name	Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
Publisher	Routledge

Keywords

race
American Studies
Spanish Civil War
Jim Crow
fascism
Transnational networks

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African American Internationalism and Anti-Fascism. / Bergin, Catherine.
Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective: Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism. ed. / Kasper Braskén ; Nigel Copsey ; David Featherstone. London: Routledge, 2020. p. 254-272 (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right).

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