Routledge Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective

Prologue: A Song of Hope Oodgeroo Noonuccal Introduction: Why Antiracism in Historical Perspective Alison Holland and Christopher J. Lee Part I Anti-Slavery and Anti-Lynching as Antiracism 1. Abolishing the ‘Inhuman Distinction of Colors’ Iziah Topete 2. Against Race: Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Patricia A. Schechter Part II Early Twentieth Century Antiracism 3. Harold Moody: The League of Coloured Peoples and Black British Antiracism Simeon Marty 4. Landscapes of Exclusion: Chinese Canadians and the Structural Challenges of Anti-Racist Activism in British Columbia Timothy J. Stanley 5. Arturo Schomburg and the Building of an Antiracist Archive Don Polite 6. From Anti-Semitism to Anti-Colonialism: The Evolution of Soviet Antiracism Meredith L. Roman Part III Anticolonialism and Antiracism between the Wars 7. Anticolonialism and Black Radicalism in the 1930s Theo Williams 8. The Communist Party of Australia, Trade Unions and the Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, 1920 -1939 Padraic Gibson 9. International Communism, Anticolonialism and Antiracism between the First and Second World Wars Neelama Srivastava Part IV Antiracism after World War II 10. The ‘Gigantic Unpredictable’: Reading Empire with C.L.R. James Andrew Smith 11. The Antiracism of Frantz Fanon Christopher J. Lee 12. Paul and Eslanda Robeson’s Lifelong and Transnational Fight against Racism Ann Curthoys 13. The Legacy of the Mau Mau: An Ongoing Fight Against Colonialism and Racism in Kenya Mickie Mwanzia Koster 14. Slow Steps, Compromises and Blind Spots in the Development of Ashley Montagu’s Antiracism Robert Bernasconi 15. Black Sisters on Whose Shoulders We Stand: a Passion to Fight Apartheid Injustice – Some Reflections Elizabeth Williams Part V Human Rights and Antiracism 16. Advocating for Justice, Confronting Racism: Japanese Canadian Resistance, Community and the Language of Human Rights During and After World War II Stephanie Bangarth 17. Anticolonialism, Antiracism and Human Rights Bonny Ibhawoh and Nnamdi Nnake 18. Human Rights and Antiracism in Australia: Indigenising a Movement, 1930-1950 Alison Holland Part VI Black Power as Antiracism 19. The Black Consciousness Critique of Europe Ian Macqueen 20. The Brazilian Black Movement in Historical Perspective Amilcar Araujo Pereira and Thayara de Lima 21. Black Power in Britain: An Introductory History Robin Bunce and Paul Field Part VII Antiracism in National Settings 22. Reconsidering US Antiracism: 1945-1970 Anthony Hazard 23. Arab Americans, Palestinian Solidarity, and Antiracism, 1960s-1980s Pamela Pennock 24. Not Blacks, but Citizens: Antiracism and the 1959 Cuban Revolution Devyn Spence Benson 25. Antiracism in France Daniel A. Gordon 26. Swedish Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Phantom’s Role in Comics and Activism Robert Aman 27. Confronting Anti-Muslim Racism in the US Erik Love Part VIII The Past in the Present: Contemporary Antiracisms 28. Critical Race Theory’s Essentialist Flaws: An Insider’s Reflections and Provocation Jonathan W. Warren 29. Antiracism in Latin America: Alternative Grammars and Racialized Class Consciousness Peter Wade and Monica Moreno Figueroa 30. Contemporary Antiracism and Policing: Duty of Care and Legacies of Colonial Power in Australia and Fiji Kirstie Close 31. Antiracist Feminism and Queer of Colour Activism in the Nordic Region Suvi Kerskinen 32. From Equality of Opportunity to Equality as a Result: Evaluating Antiracist Ideologies in the Post-Civil Rights Era Jared Clemons Epilogue – Palestine is a Volcano: On the Power of Anticolonial & Antiracist Resistance Geo Maher Afterword – ‘Universities v Protest: A letter from a lesser alumnus’ Yannick Giovanni Marshall

Biography

Alison Holland is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published two monographs: Just Relations. The Story of Mary Bennett’s Crusade for Aboriginal Rights (2015) and Breaking the Silence. Aboriginal Defenders and the Settler State, 1905–1939 (2019). She is the editor of Rethinking the Racial Moment. Essays on the Colonial Encounter (2012). She is currently writing a history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and is on the editorial board of Black Histories: Dialogues.

Christopher J. Lee is an independent scholar who has published twelve books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966–1985 (2024). He is currently the lead editor of the journal Safundi.

Approaching antiracism as a global phenomenon with deep historical roots, the editors have put together a fascinating collection that illuminates the extraordinary heterogeneity of anti-racist thought, movements and legislation. Bringing radical, indigenous and diasporic perspectives into conversation, the Routledge Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective is at once a major educational resource and an important activists’ handbook.
Professor Laura Chrisman, Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English, Washington University

Framed in terms of the dialectical struggles between racism and antiracism the Routledge Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective offers a wide-ranging collection of studies on histories of antiracism. The volume includes strong analyses of antiracism in long and well-documented contexts as well as those much less commonly discussed. In this it offers a compelling resource for both pedagogical and research purposes. A valuable resource, especially in our current moment, for understanding antiracism, historically and contemporarily.
Professor David Theo Goldberg, Distinguished Professor University of California, Irvine

Drawing on a global set of case studies, across two-hundred years, the Routledge Handbook on Antiracism in Global Historical Perspective gives us a vital, long overdue, account of how race and its opponents built the modern world. Never losing sight of the historic pliability of race, Alison Holland and Christopher J. Lee demonstrate that antiracism is as diverse and evolving as the system of control, domination and hierarchisation it opposes. This is activist history at its best.
Dr Jon Piccini, Senior Lecturer, Australian Catholic University