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In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on two organizations, the Harlem-based African Blood Brotherhood, whose members became the first black Communists in the United States, and the International African Service Bureau, the major black anticolonial group in 1930s London, In the Cause of Freedom examines the ideas, initiatives, and networks of interwar black radicals, as well as how they communicated across continents.

Through a detailed analysis of black radical periodicals and extensive research in U.S., English, Dutch, and Soviet archives, Makalani explores how black radicals thought about race; understood the ties between African diasporic, Asian, and international workers' struggles; theorized the connections between colonialism and racial oppression; and confronted the limitations of international leftist organizations. Considering black radicals of Harlem and London together for the first time, In the Cause of Freedom reorients the story of blacks and Communism from questions of autonomy and the Kremlin's reach to show the emergence of radical black internationalism separate from, and independent of, the white Left.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Contents/Illustrations
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xvi
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. xvii-xviii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-21
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  1. 1 Straight Socialism or Negro-ology?: Diaspora, Harlem, and the Institutions of Black Radicalism
  2. pp. 23-44
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  1. 2 Liberating Negroes Everywhere: Cyril Briggs, the African Blood Brotherhood, and Radical Pan-Africanism
  2. pp. 45-69
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  1. 3 With All Forces Menacing Empire: Black and Asian Radicals Internationalize the Third International
  2. pp. 71-102
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  1. 4 An Outcast Here as Outside: Nationality, Class, and Building Racial Unity
  2. pp. 103-131
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  1. 5 An Incessant Struggle against White Supremacy: Anticolonial Struggles and Black International Connections
  2. pp. 133-164
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  1. 6 The Rise of a Black International: George Padmore and the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
  2. pp. 165-194
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  1. 7 An International African Opinion: Diasporic London and Black Radical Intellectual Production
  2. pp. 195-224
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  1. Epilogue: A Vitality and Validity of Its Own
  2. pp. 225-230
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 231-270
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 271-295
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  1. Index
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